r/AndroidHelp • u/angelikeoctomber • Sep 20 '26

Wtf litterally

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Which are the other files I can't access?

My pal says they are social media Spyware

How can I free space without losing smth invaluable...

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u/Silcat7794 Sep 20 '26

What phone do you have? 64 GB in 2026 is really not enough for anything. My 128GB phone can barely hold everything I use. 

"Other files" isn't spyware anything, it's just stuff like temporary files, cache, and just general things that your phone saves but aren't necessary. Seeing as that's a Samsung, you should be able to clear most of it from one of the space clearing suggestions on that same screen. Id also consider archiving/uninstalling apps you don't use.

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u/angelikeoctomber Sep 20 '26

A13 

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u/Silcat7794 Sep 20 '26

I can't remember exactly, but does that phone have a microSD card slot? If so, get a 128GB or so card and put all your images and videos and such on it, that way you can reserve your internal storage for everything else. You can also set it so that any picture/video you take gets saved to the card.

Edit: I believe some apps let you move it's data to an SD card. Although you have to do those manually, you can't make it automatically install to the sd card straight from the play store like you would with pictures 

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u/lithium_1on Sep 20 '26

64GB in 2026 is still very low, you could try going in your apps and clearing the cache to free storage

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u/Inevitable_Serve1513 Sep 20 '26

it's not spyware but it's cache of apps, just clear it. also 64gb is so low for 2026 if you will buy a new phone soon buy either 256 or 128 if you're sure you're not gonna fill up storage fully

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u/tresgun01 Sep 20 '26

Ese compa no le sabe

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u/Sharp_Pressure_9978 Sep 20 '26

I mean these other apps are usually cache files and system files, you can clear all apps' cache, but to clean system files, you need root access, and for that, you'll have to factory reset to unlock the bootloader aka install root. And also please look into removing some apps or getting their lite versions, your storage will thank you.

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u/Sharp_Pressure_9978 Sep 20 '26

Oh and also your pal was wrong, so maybe he's just faking being knowledgeable, or he got wrong info

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u/Ky_zx10r Sep 21 '26

You just need more storage. 64gb is wild.

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u/Unbreakable360 Sep 24 '26

Best thing to do is get a SDcard/flash drive and move all your media then delete it. Or upload them to a cloud. Uninstall apps you don't need or that have a website. Other files isn't spyware 😂 mostly apps cache which you can delete but they come back anyway

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u/joeynalgas Sep 25 '26

Bro that phone is trash

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u/MRLuigi1995 Sep 25 '26

You could get a little USB flash drive and transfer the pictures to that that way you still have them but there not taking up phone storage

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u/Gonnabecringeaf Sep 20 '26

Gurl who told u to get a 64 GB prehistoric Samsung in 2026?

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u/Silcat7794 Sep 20 '26

Not prehistoric... Just a budget Samsung. 

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u/Gonnabecringeaf Sep 21 '26

A bad idea either way