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First, head over to the Storage tab in Settings and check the Audio and Video folders to see if there are any files that can be deleted. Thankfully they’re easy to find and remove. Those albums that you downloaded for a camping trip or a movie for a long plane ride that you simply forgot about can eat up lots of data.

The biggest space suckers on your Android phone are media files. Manage downloaded music, movies, and podcasts Make sure you’ve stored them elsewhere before you tap the OK button. Note: If you’re using the “High quality” setting for unlimited but lower-resolution cloud storage of your backed up photos, keep in mind that the “Free up device storage” feature will delete your full-resolution originals. The Photos app will let you know how many pictures it can delete from local storage and how much space you’ll save. Once your snapshots are safely backed up, Photos can zap any locally stored images to free up more space. Open the Photos app, tap the three-line menu button in the top left corner of the screen, then tap Free up space. One of the best features of Google’s Photos app is its ability to back up your entire photo library to your online Google account. Then simply tap and hold to select the ones you don’t want and trash them. When you find it, the three-line menu icon in the top corner of the screen and sort the list of downloads by size, then take a look at what’s hogging the most storage space. You’ll find inside the Files app on most phones-though it’s called My Files on Galaxy phones-and It’s a favorite hideout for miscellaneous junk files downloaded from the web or some other app. Just like on a PC or a Mac, your Android device has a Downloads folder. Your phone saves everything you’ve ever downloaded so you might need to clear it every once in a while. Clean up your Downloads Michael Simon/IDG