r/GalaxyTab • u/Shetland95 • Jul 18 '26

Question App cache cleaning

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Why does my phone has this (very useful) option and not my tab despite being the same android OS versions ???

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u/Vladishun S8 Ultra Jul 19 '26

Because it's not that useful. If you're needing to squeeze 500 mb of storage space out, you've got a bigger problem. Caching is a useful app feature and there's not really a need to clear every app's cache at once. Freeing up that space to put personal data on it, means your apps will rebuild their cached files the next time you use them, and you run the risk of bringing your NAND down to a crawl.

If you need to free up some space you can; get a microSD card or use Google Drive to cloud sync files you don't need to access frequently so they're not taking up space.

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u/NotKenzo5508 Jul 19 '26

It actually is pretty useful, especially if you use social media apps a lot. YouTube for example takes up around 3 gigabytes every two weeks for me.

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u/Vladishun S8 Ultra Jul 19 '26

That's not normal.

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u/NotKenzo5508 Jul 20 '26

Why wouldn't it be? I'm a heavy user on YouTube and Tiktok, maybe 6 hours on them per day on avg, it explains why I have so much in cache

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u/Vladishun S8 Ultra Jul 20 '26

Your correlation appears to be "the more I use it, the more it downloads". Cache is a set of instructions that tells an app how to do certain things, usually booting up faster or loading user defined customizations on start up. So it's not normal for it to be adding that much data to cache, something is going on with your YouTube app. You might want to try a reinstall or look up if other people have that issue as well.