How to clear cache on Android
Android phones may operate sluggish. Low storage capacity, OS or program faults, and hardware failures might cause this problem. Clearing Android cache might address low storage space, which freezes or lags your phone. These programs conserve data to enhance browser and app performance. Over time, these smartphone files may take up a lot of storage space and slow down performance. Clearing Android cache speeds up your smartphone.
What is Android's cache?
Caching means that games, social media apps, websites, and other apps on your phone can briefly store data.
This information is kept because it is thought to help speed up loading times and improve the general user experience.
When you open Boomplay or a similar music player app on your phone, for example, it may store your most-played mix. So, when you open the music player, the app won't have to load its tracks every time.
Cache data is how apps like Spotify, YouTube, Facebook, Chrome, and many others store information.
This information can include your search history, snippets of videos, photos, fonts, and papers that have been saved. This technology helps cut down on the user's need to write or get information from the Internet too often.
The memory file can only be used with the program or software that goes with it.
For example, WhatsApp does not use any cache with Boomplay. When a part of a program or application thinks that the saved data is no longer needed, it usually deletes the cache files that go with it.
This technology is used in desktop (PC) websites and other apps, as well as on the Android smartphone.
Cache files are used by apps, websites, browsers, media players, and games on an Android device to make things run faster and better.
Since internet speeds and quality vary from site to site, caching saves the user a lot of time. But, strangely, when mobile apps dump a lot of data on an Android device, the process finally slows the device down, especially if the phone doesn't have much storage room to hold the stored data.
Is your phone or other smart gadget slow? One way to fix the problem on Android is to clear the cache.
Clear the app's files in Chrome
Chrome is the web browser that comes with Android tablets. Like other computers, it saves information in a cache to make viewing faster.
Here's how to clear app cache data when your phone is running out of room or Chrome isn't working right:
- Start up the Chrome app on your Android device.
- Tap the three dots (More) in the top right corner to open the drop-down options.
- Click History > Clear internet history
- If you want, you can use the date range to choose the exact date you want to clear.
- Click Photos and Files Saved
- Click on the choice to clear the data.
Cleared third-party apps' stored info.
Just like browser cache, app cache is a place where small bits of information are stored to make using a mobile app faster. Cache data may be to blame when your phone lags a lot or when some apps close or stop reacting all of a sudden.
So, to make space and fix a broken app, you need to clear its cache.
Here are the six steps you need to take to clear the cookies for any app:
- To get to the quick settings panel, swipe down from the home screen.
- Click on the gear wheel.
- Tap Apps and alerts.
- Tap View all apps or something similar on your phone to see all apps.
- Tap on the app(s) whose cache you want to clear.
- Tap Storage, then tap Clear Cache.
