How to free up your phone storage without loosing your files

 Best and safe ways to free up memory space on your phone without loosing data.

Smart phones are characterized with reception of both media and text files which are important and entertaining to the user. Also critical updates normally occur in both default and third party applications in the smart phones. All these necessitated the consumption of both secondary and primary memory of the of the phone. Most a times you end up deleting important files from your phone while trying to free the memory.

Here are some basic steps and methods to free up memory without loosing personal and important files.

1.CLEAR DATA AND CACHE OF LARGE APPS

Go to settings ,then apps or application manager, look for chrome,google play services,YouTube, open each of them one after another, you will see storage or manage storage,click on it and then select clear the storage and cache.

2.WHATSAPP DATABASE

Open file manager or files on your phone  menu, tap on phone storage, go down to whatsapp folder, open the folder, go to database and delete all, these database temporal local back up periodically saved by whatsapp, it won't affect your chat history rather another database will be created at its appointed time. These database consume a lot of memory. Also within the whatsapp folder you can open media folder, then video folder to delete a folder named 'sent'. This folders takes on your memory by keeping records of  videos you sent out to other people hence duplicating it in your phone.

3.RAW INSTALLATION APK FILES IN XENDER FOLDER

After opening your file manager or file  from menu , in the internal storage scroll downwards to xender folder,tap on the xender folder to expose its contents, open the first folder labeled 'App' and delete everything. These are raw files of applications received from someone through xender, which must have been installed therefore are of no use being in your phone rather than to waste your memory.

4.PHONE MASTER

If your phone have an application phone master or it's equivalent like xmanager in most infinix phones. Open this application and look for an option labeled 'deep clean',when you click on this your phone will scan the whole storage to show all items and the memory they occupy. You will see list of large files which you may want to delete to free up memory.

5. WHATSAPP CLEAN

Open your whatsapp and press the three dots at the upper right  hand corner of your phone screen (settings) tap on "storage and data". Open manage storage. Then you will see lists of charts according to memories. Check those with high memories  and choose and mark media files , sent and received items which are not useful anymore and tap on the dustbin sign at the upper right hand corner for deletion.

Alternately you can delete  media files like videos, music's which you don't need anymore. You can as well uninstall those applications that are not on use. Beyond all these,you can insert a memory card and move your media files into it so that the phone memory will be reserved for applications.

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