Tricks to free up space on your cell phone, Gmail, and iCloud

Running out of space on your cell phone is one of the common epidemics these days. Unable to download emails, save photo or download new app Sooner or later it is impossible to face a problem that always appears in the form of a message on the mobile screen.

There are many answers to the question of why my phone is running out of space: we don't know the amount of content we store every day, especially photos and videos, because of their creation or activities. applications such as WhatsApp Every multimedia file that comes to us in the chat is backed up in the gallery.

The same thing happens with us Email: Most links take up a lot of space when we decide to download or view a document or content that comes to us in the cloud service and on our computer.

Then there are the apps and the phone's operating system, which expand in size over time with each update and the more we use them. Phone storage Unbeknownst to us.

Finally, the phone has daily functionality: browsing websites, watching videos on YouTube, using Waze or Google Maps, creating playlists and offline music on Spotify, or watching offline content on Netflix are all done. Loading up both space and storage (ROM) and RAM ultimately affects the performance and speed of the device.

We're going to leave you with the best below Tricks to deep clean your cell phone and gain storage space.

Exit with unused applications

Go to Settings, Storage on Android. Go to Settings, General, and Storage on iPhone. There you can see which apps are taking up the most space on your phone. On iPhone you can filter using the last date. Uninstall the ones you use less and analyze the ones taking up more space to clean them.

Review downloads

On iPhone, open the Files app and search for Downloads. On Android you can download an app like Google Files or find one that helps you view your downloads. From emails, chats or web browsing you can find everything you have downloaded on your cell phone there. Delete all the files you see as unnecessary.

Remove your WhatsApp

Chat uses a lot of storage space. Open Chat, then Settings, Settings, Storage, and Manage Storage. It will show you which chats (especially groups) are eating up your storage space and which chat files are taking up a lot of space. Select large files and delete them. Enter large chats, select multimedia files and delete them including the backup on the cell phone.

Organize your Gmail

Open the email in your computer browser, First, delete emails from spam and junk folders. Then, in the email search engine, type Large: 5M. This way, emails with attachments larger than 5 megabytes will appear. Remove the unnecessary. To view older emails, you can type in the search engine before: 2021/01/01.

Use Google Files

This is an app that will help you Get an in-depth look at how your storage is on your cell phone, Android, and iPhone. Best: It identifies duplicate files (multiple downloads and consultation from chat or email), identical or repeated photos, 'junk' documents and files, or those we never consulted. By deleting them, they help us free up a considerable amount of space.

Batteries with iCloud

Go to Settings on your iPhone or iPad and iCloud. In 'Stored in iCloud' you will see the space occupied by photos, files (drive), notes and email. There are two things you can do with Photos: Delete what you've backed up (including videos) and disable the 'Sync this iPhone' option. Therefore This will free up space and prevent every photo you take from going to iCloud. Go to 'Review and delete large files' in the drive. Delete the unnecessary ones.

Jose Carlos Carque R.

Multimedia editor

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