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Help a Luddite free up space on an Android phone

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I am a Luddite, and my in house tech support is away at uni

Got a Galaxy A21, that us warning me that it's internal storage is 95% full.

It shows me a handy breakdown which shows that of the 32GB of storage, 9.5GB is being taken up by "System" and 19GB is "Other" but I can't see a way of drilling down to see what they are and what I can clear out.

Any ideas?

(Turning it off and on again didn't work)


 
Posted : 03/03/2023 1:10 pm
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Dunno about Samsung's version of Android, but on the Motorola version, I go to 'settings', 'storage', 'free up space'. I suspect yours will have something similar.


 
Posted : 03/03/2023 1:14 pm
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Get rid of unused apps, back up pics/ vid to cloud storage (I use Google one but Samsung will have an alternative no doubt) then delete them. Make sure they are backed up fittest, it can take a long while!

Those 2 things take up the bulk of your storage, apps and multimedia.

Cleaning up other stuff doesn't free up much memory but you can still do it.


 
Posted : 03/03/2023 1:26 pm
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Deleting the 650Mb or so of stored data this website dumps on your phone will be a good start. It'll start dumping it all back on again straight away but for a golden moment you'll have a semblance of control.


 
Posted : 03/03/2023 1:34 pm
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If your anything like me - check whatsapp first (Whatsapp, Settings, Storage&data, Manage storage...) Literal Gigabytes of nonsense, memes, gifs, video clips etc...

And make sure your camera is saving things to your removable storage, not the phone itself.


 
Posted : 03/03/2023 2:15 pm

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