Some apps are useful — so useful that you find yourself opening and using them on a daily basis. These are the keepers of the app world (even if they send you searching for your charger a little more than you’d like). Other apps are just plain fun — everyone can use a game or puzzle app to play when waiting for a flight. But you may find it more difficult to figure out when you’ve got a “worthless” app taking up storage space and battery power on your phone. That’s when an expert’s advice can come in handy and save you many future headaches.
Tech Expert Roman Milyushkevich, CEO and co-founder of Scrape-it.cloud, calls out these three apps as being “worthless” and says deleting them can help you save on storage.
Storage cleaning apps
Cleaning apps like CCleaner or Cleanmaster consume a lot of battery power and use a lot of RAM when running them, according to Milyushkevich. “In addition, the ads that run on them can consume much of your data,” he says. “The best approach is to delete them altogether.”
Battery-saving apps
They may seem like a great idea, but these apps tend to take control of the whole operating system, dimming the screen light, stopping unnecessary tasks, and controlling data use, Milyushkevich stresses. “But this can also lead to these programs blocking other necessary apps that are using resources to process, leading the OS to shut down and start up again to populate its memory, leading to more battery use and unproductive tasks,” he adds.
Productivity apps
“I believe that productivity apps like calendars, workflows, and notes are a waste of time and resources if you have the primary discipline and good work habits,” Milyushkevich says. And those apps on your phone can be taking up valuable storage space.
How do they take up storage space?
These apps, over time, get updated with new features, leading to an increase in their app size and update bandwidth size. “Once installed and running, they take up local space, account storage, cache, and other settings for the app to function smoothly. E.g., gaming apps tend to download many newer application files over time and through updates,” Milyushkevich says.
Can deleting them help free up storage?
In one word: yes — deleting them can free up storage. “To do that, go to the settings app on your phone and go to Apps/App Manager/Apps & Notifications,” Milyushkevich says. “There you can tap on the specific app that you want uninstalled. If asked, confirm the app's uninstallation once more, and it gets removed. For apps that cannot be uninstalled, you can disable them. To do that, go to the phone's settings app, tap on the App Manager, go to the app you want to disable and tap on uninstall updates. You can also go to App permissions and turn off permissions or force the stop button.”
The ore control you take over your apps — especially the ones that aren’t serving you — the more efficient your phone will be.
