Given enough time, all gadgets slow down, including smartphones. Your Android can slow down randomly, and there are times when even a reboot doesn’t really fix it. However, you don’t necessarily need to spend hundreds (or thousands) of dollars on a new phone. Your old phone might just need a good cleaning.
How to Clear Cache on Android
If nothing else seems to speed up your Android phone, you should try some cache maintenance. As you use your Android phone, apps (especially Chrome) start to store temporary files that they think you need. They use these to load pages faster and to keep older files in memory. That’s great if you have a fast flagship with lots of memory to spare. But if your Android phone is on the older side, you’ll be surprised how much smoother things become if you let go of some of that cache.
It’s actually a good idea to do this regularly, even every few weeks. It may seem counterintuitive, since the cache is supposed to keep your phone running faster, but lightening the digital load is often the best approach for older devices.
Simply put, a cache is a collection of data that is stored by a particular app to speed up the performance of that app. The cache acts as a buffer between the RAM and the CPU, loading pre-built data on the fly so that there is no delay for the user, not even the time it takes for the CPU to communicate with the RAM or storage.
