{"id":274457,"date":"2026-06-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/i-emptied-a-trash-folder-i-didnt-know-my-phone-had-and-got-12gb-back\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:05:25","slug":"i-emptied-a-trash-folder-i-didnt-know-my-phone-had-and-got-12gb-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/i-emptied-a-trash-folder-i-didnt-know-my-phone-had-and-got-12gb-back\/","title":{"rendered":"I emptied a trash folder I didn&#8217;t know my phone had and got 12GB back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/empty-hidden-trash-folder-android\/\">I emptied a trash folder I didn&#8217;t know my phone had and got 12GB back<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/empty-hidden-trash-folder-android\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/empty-hidden-trash-folder-android\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-16 10:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Android phones don\u2019t offer a system-wide trash folder that you can tap and empty whenever you need to free up space. That means you have to go through individual apps, like Gallery and Files, to empty the recycle bin within each one. And like most people, that\u2019s where I used to stop. I never really realized there was an entirely different category of files taking up space without showing up anywhere obvious. <\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI found Android&#8217;s hidden resource monitor and stopped installing cleanup apps<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Time to open Developer Options on your phone<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-more-i-edited-the-more-storage-i-lost\">\n                        The more I edited, the more storage I lost<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"the-undo-feature-comes-with-a-storage-cost\">\n            The undo feature comes with a storage cost<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>                                    &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/empty-hidden-trash-folder-android\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I emptied a trash folder I didn&#8217;t know my phone had and got 12GB back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":274458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/06\/phone-showing-recycle-bin-menu.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274459,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274457\/revisions\/274459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}