Fixing insufficient storage available on android

Have you tried downloading an app from the playstore only for its to display insufficient storage available this mostly happens to budgeted phones that comes with 4GB to 8GB storage space, if you get carried away by your device camera or you are enjoying or staying too long in the google app play store, it is reasonably you get low on storage this is because android devices with low storage space can get stuffed up with cache files, thus making making android to report an insufficient storage available error message and preventing you from downloading new applications from the playstore, most times this is often seen when you transfer huge amount of data from the phone's  memory to an sdcard and the cache is not properly cleared, this can be frustrating when you are sure of available enough memory for the app on your device, we are going to explain a number of ways to solve this issue.

1) Uninstalling unwanted or unused apps

With so many interesting apps on the playstore, you may get carried away by the many interesting apps on the playstore and download only for you to realize you don't need the app with time apps like this may get forgotten.

Android have an app tray to show all installed apps which have multiple pages, to delete this apps you can tap on the app and drag to delete or the bin symbol that appears at the top of the screen or goto settings click on "apps" and go through the apps to select the one you want to delete click on the app and click delete.

2) Deleting unwanted photos and videos

Check your phone for duplicate photos or videos, or for photos or videos you don't want again and delete them, then you can download google photos from the playstore to back up your media content this is advisable since once you have account with google you can access your media content from anywhere you are with any device as long as you have an internet connection and can remeber your sign in details.

3) Deleting unnecessary files

there are some unnecessary files you downloaded maybe mistakenly or intentionally or files present on your phone that are not needed you can check the download folder from your file manger, generally file manger are preinstalled on most android phones or download a file manager app from the playstore like es explorer maybe credit card statement, bank statement etc you can alsp check the whatsapp folder for unnecessary files.

4) Emptying android's cache file

After deleting and clearing unwanted and unused files the insufficient storage available error message still appears and you are out of ideas on what to do or you don't know how to clear android's cached data?  To clear android cache data click on settings>storage>cached data and select ok when the pop-up prompt you to clear the cached data you can also clear the cache of each individual app manually by going to settings>apps click on your desired app and clear cache, if you are an android 6.0(marshmallow) user click settings>apps>select the app>tap storage>clear cache.

Downloading Appcache cleaner 1tap clean

You can download this app from the google playstore to automate the process, cause this app finds and remove junk files for you automatically, once you download the app to your phone launch it and click on the huge start button it will start the process and you can decide on the app cache to delete