If your Android is getting slow, or throw at you an “Insufficient storage” error message when trying to install an app, here’s a quick solution to free some storage space up quickly.
In short, clear the Cached data in the Storage menu.
Smartphone’s storage full
Open the Settings app on your phone, and locate the Storage menu.
Locating Storage menu in Settings
Wait a bit for the values to be calculated, and have a look at the Cached data – if it’s too large, you can easily free up some space by clearing it.
Cached data in Storage settings
Tap on Cached data entry, and accept to clear it – as it is only cache data, meaning temporary data used by applications, you can easily get rid of it with limited risk.
Clear cached data confirmation
See the difference, it should now be much lighter.
Misc. entry in Storage settings
Another step you can do, in the Storage menu, scroll down to the Misc. entry, which might be quite high as well.
Go in, and have a deep look at all the entries. You might have some data remaining on your phone from apps you don’t use anymore or have uninstalled a long time ago.
Review Misc data for uninstalled / unused apps
Select the entries that you don’t need anymore, and tap the trash on the top right.
Select uninstalled / unused apps with data still existing
Check out your phone storage, it should now look much happier !
