Whether you encounter memory problems on your Honor 8X, latency problems, unexplained application bugs… One of the possible causes of this type of problem will be the cache of your device. You have probably never heard of it, but this memory is used all the time by your device for various reasons.
On this page, we will teach you everything about it and, above all, teach you how to clear the cache on an Honor 8X? To do this, first of all, we will teach you what is the purpose of your smartphone's cache, then how to clean it, first with a single application and then all the applications on your Honor 8X.
What is the use of the cache on an Honor 8X?
We therefore start this article by teaching you the purpose of caching an Honor 8X. This memory can also be called a buffer memory. She will actually come save all your data related to the use of an application.
For example, you are surfing on your favorite social network application, when you view images it is necessary to download them to your smartphone, this data will end up in the application cache, always available in the event that you wish watch it again without having to download it again.
This memory is therefore in principle really useful, because it gives you the opportunity to make your browsing through the different applications more fluid. Despite everything, we are far from reusing all of this memory, so from time to time it is necessary to clean the cache of your Honor 8X.
Why should you clear the cache of an Honor 8X?
We will now briefly describe in detail the different reasons that should push you to periodically delete the application cache of your Honor 8X. Check them out below:
- Preserve your privacy: As we told you, the cache will save all your browsing data, in the event that you do not want a third party to be able to consult them, it is interesting to empty it quite often
- Avoid bugs: There are a large number of bugs caused by an overloaded cache or corrupted files. If this is your situation, don't hesitate for one second
- Optimize the performance of your Honor 8X: More data means more calculations and research for your processor when you use an application, in the event that your cache is empty your smartphone will be especially faster
- Make room: You will also be able to recover storage space by deleting the cache, we do not realize but the multimedia files are very large and you can quickly have several gigabytes of data in the cache
How to clear the cache on an Honor 8X?
Finally, we will conclude our guide by presenting the process that you are surely waiting for, how to clear the cache of an Honor 8X? First we will show you the procedure for a single application, then for all the applications of your Honor 8X. The procedures are similar, but it is recommended that you do it selectively, it is not good to do it for all applications too frequently.
How to clear the cache of a single application on your Honor 8X?
We therefore start by explaining the process for delete the cache of an application on your Honor 8X :
- Open the "Settings" of your smartphone
- Click on the "Applications" menu
- Click on the application you want to act on
- Click on "Storage"
- To finish press " Empty the cache "
Warning, this action will empty the cache but will also delete application data from your Honor 8X. You will therefore no longer be able to log in to your application automatically.
How to clear the cache of all applications of its Honor 8X?
Second solution, you can simply empty your Honor 8X , understood, that of all applications. It is the necessary solution, among other things, when you have storage problems. Let's go:
- Open the “Settings” of your Honor 8X
- Click on the "Device maintenance" menu
- Then on the "Memory" tab
- To finish, click on " To clean " to clear the cache of all applications on your Honor 8X
In case you are looking for a max of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Honor 8X, we invite you to consult the other tutorials of the category: Honor 8X.
