Always running out of internal storage on your Android smartphone? Here’s what you can do

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As we go on using our smartphones, we tend to download a lot of apps and multimedia files. All of these fill up internal storage, which in turn affects the smartphone's performance.That said, it's easy to fill up the internal storage on our smartphones (especially budget devices with low storage), considering how much we use them on a daily basis.

There are over two million apps in the Play Store. There are addictive games, essential productivity tools, and great ways to customize your phone.
There are also apps that will completely change how you use Android. Some enhance the user interface, some automate common tasks, and some take popular features Some of the reasons why your smartphone's internal storage may get filled up are:

1. Downloading too many apps
2. Clicking high-resolution photos and videos
3. Installing a lot of heavy games
4. Not using a microSD card, even if the smartphone supports storage expansion.

But don't worry, there are a few ways by which you can free up internal storage on your smartphone. Here are some of them:

a. Start saving photos and videos to cloud storage services such as Google Photos, instead of on your smartphone.
b. Save files like Word documents, Excel sheets, PowerPoint presentations and PDFs to cloud storage services like Dropbox and Google Drive
c. Start using a microSD card and use it as the default storage location to store files
d. Delete any apps that you don't use a lot
e. Clear cache of apps through the app settings
f. Use an OTG USB flash drive

Apart from these, you can do one more thing - move existing apps saved on your phone's internal storage to a microSD card (if the same is supported). It's quite easy, and all you need is an app called App2SD. We should mention that there are quite a few apps on the Play Store that have similar functionalities, but this one is our pick.

 Developed by Sam Lu, App2SD lets you transfer installed apps from your smartphone's internal storage to the microSD card. On first start, it gives you a list of all the apps you have installed on your smartphone. Here, you can also uninstall the apps that you don't want.


On selecting the 'Move Apps' option, you'll see the list of apps that can moved to microSD card. Simply select the one you want and move it.


Another functionality of App2SD is that it enables users to hide apps that they don't want others to see on their smartphone. Similar to the 'Move Apps section', it's possible to see all the hidden apps in one place. However, the app only directed us to a page that instructed us on how to hide it. Unlike the 'Move Apps' feature, we couldn't hide apps from within the app itself.


If you wish to disable or freeze apps on your smartphone so that they don't run in the background and eat up data, you can do that via App2SD too.

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