The Common Mistake That’s Filling Your Android Phone’s Storage

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If you’re the type of person who sits at 95% or more of your phone’s storage capacity filled, your phone probably feels like a nag at this point, constantly reminding you that you’re reaching the breaking point and you need to do some spring cleaning. Your immediate impulse might be to get into the weeds of your media and start deleting some of those precious memories, but there’s often a more common, subtle culprit at work: an overabundance of apps, and their (sometimes massive) caches.

It’s the most common sin on a modern smartphone: filling up your device with tons of apps, including a huge backlog that you rarely, if ever, touch. At the same time, updates might bring new apps you didn’t ask for and may not even notice, as they got lost in the tidal wave of icons beneath your home screen. With them come updates and background files that add more bloat, and over time, they can devour huge swaths of free storage, even if you’re backing up your data without using cloud storage.