How exercise I clear upwardly retention infinite on my device?

How do I clear up space on my device

If yous find that your device freezes sometimes or is sometimes unresponsive, information technology could exist that your device may be running low on retentivity space required to run applications. Clearing memory space will free upward more RAM space and delete cached data, which allows apps to open and run more than quickly.

Below are ways to gratuitous up some retentivity infinite on your device.

Battery and device care

The Battery and device care feature removes unnecessary data from your device, freeing upwards storage infinite. This will only delete cached, residual and advertisement files from your device. User files such as photos, videos and messages volition not be removed.

Please note: The following steps may vary depending on the model and operating system of your device.

1 Swipe up from the home screen to admission your apps

ii Tap "Settings"

Settings icon

3 Tap "Battery and device intendance". On some older devices, this is chosen "Device care"

Battery and device care selected in settings menu

4 Once your device has finished scanning, tap "Memory"

Memory selected in Battery and device care

5 Tap "Clean At present".

Clean now selected in memory section of Batter and device care

Dorsum up your files with Samsung Smart Switch

With Samsung Smart Switch you can back up your files to an SD memory menu, a USB memory stick or an external hard drive. Once you take inserted the memory menu or connected your device to the retentivity stick or external hard bulldoze, follow the below steps to dorsum upwardly your data.

Read our FAQ to find out What is Smart Switch and how to utilize it.

Please annotation: The following steps may vary depending on the model and operating system of your device.

i Swipe upward from the habitation screen to access your apps

3 Tap "Cloud and accounts"

5 Tap "External storage transfer". Depending on your device, you may need to tap "More" earlier choosing this option

7 Select the data that yous would like to back up

8 Tap "Dorsum up" to transfer the files to your external storage device

If you're experiencing unusual behaviour on Samsung mobiles, tablets or wearables, you can send united states an error report or inquire us a question in the Samsung Members app.

This allows us to a closer look at what is happening. The information is anonymised and just held for the duration of the investigation. Find out more nearly sending an error report through the Samsung Members app

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