![]() On iOS you can easily check which apps have access to what under Settings > Privacy. Audit permissions on your mobile appsĮven if there’s plenty of space free on your smartphone, it’s a good idea to keep an eye on which apps can access your personal information, or do costly things such as make phone calls or send text messages. Deleting two or three big unneeded files can often free up more space than clearing out thousands of cache files and cookies. ![]() There’s also a list view, which you can sort by size, to instantly reveal the largest folders. These tools scan your hard disk and generate a visual map showing the relative sizes of all folders and files. Windows users can use a free utility called WinDirStat the Mac equivalent, also free, is called Disk Inventory X. And since these files are unique to you, generic cleanup tools are likely to miss them. Old, innocuous-looking files can gobble up huge amounts of space on your laptop, such as backups that are no longer needed, or big downloads that you’d forgotten about. Consider streaming music and podcasts rather than downloading them for offline playback – and see 11, below, for our advice on photo storage. You can, however, free up space manually by clearing your Safari cache, via Settings > Safari > Clear History and Website Data. ![]() For Android smartphones, there’s a good range of third-party cleanup apps iOS isn’t so well served here, since apps can’t remove files created by other applications.
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