How to Clear App Cache or Cache Data on Android Phone

How to Clear Cache on Android Phone

These days technology is growing day to day and a lot of new technologies are introducing into the market. One of them is a smartphone. These days almost everyone is using the smartphones we cannot imagine our life without them because we are dependent on them. And one of the problems we are facing with these smartphones is we are running out of space even if the smartphone comes with good memory space.

The reason to run out of space is due to the apps we are using and storing the files and some unwanted files will be created without the user's knowledge and continuous updates of the applications that we use.

When you are running out of space in your smartphone you will try to clear the data like files, images, files and etc. instead of this try to delete the junk files, cache data etc.

In this article let us see how to clear cache data on the android phone

What is cache data?

Cache data is the data that will be created by the apps that you use in your smartphone that will contain the recent data of the app and when you open the app it will be loaded easily to display the data. This will increase the speed of the phone.

We can clear the cache data by two methods they are you can directly delete the cache of the phone or you can delete the app cache data of the individual applications. Let us see the procedures of the specified methods

How to Clear System Cache on Android

Step 1: Go to the "Settings" on your Android smartphone.

Step 2: You will see a lot of options among them you select “Storage” option.

Step 3: After selecting you will find an option called “Cached data”.

Step 4:  Tap on that you will get a pop-up message asking confirmation to delete the cached data go on and press "Ok". 

Step 5: That will clear all the cached data.

How to Clear App Cache on Android

Step 1: Go to the "Settings" on your smartphone.

Step 2: You will see a lot of options among them you select “Apps” or "Apps Manager" or similar option.

Step 3: After selecting you will find all the apps that are installed on your Android.

Step 4: Find the app for which you want to clear cache. And tap on that app and you will find a window named “App info” in that window you will find an option called “Clear cache” tap on that.

That's it app cache data will be cleared.

Another Way To Clear Cache On Android

You can clear cache data in an easy way if you use the cleaning or antivirus apps. You can easily do this job on just one tap. Install a good junk or antivirus app these apps will display these things in a regular basis and those apps will recommend you to delete those cache data and also they will suggest you delete unwanted files like junk files and they will identify if the presence of the virus and they will notify about the same. 

We have listed some best junk cleaner and antivirus apps for you go through them and make use of those apps. These apps will also delete unwanted apk's and duplicate files like images, videos and other like these.

By clearing the cache you will not lose the sensitive information that you have stored in the device so you need not worry about this. 

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