Whether you have memory problems on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, latency problems, unexplained application bugs… One of the possible origins of this kind of problem will be the cache of your smartphone. You may never have heard of it, however this memory is in constant use by your smartphone for various reasons.
On this page, we are going to teach you everything about it and, above all, show you how to clear the cache on a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge? For that, to start, we will show you what is the purpose of the cache of your mobile phone, then how to clean it, first of a single application then, of all the applications of your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge.
What is the cache used for on a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge?
We therefore start this tutorial by showing you the purpose of the cache of a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. This memory can also be called a buffer memory. She will actually come store all of your data in connection with the use of an application.
For example, you are surfing on your favorite social network application, when you view images you will have to download them to your mobile phone, this data will end up in the application cache, always available if you want watch it again without having to download it again.
This memory is therefore in principle completely useful, because it offers you the possibility of making your browsing through the various applications more fluid. That said, we are far from reusing all of this memory, so from time to time it is necessary to clean the cache of your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge.
Why clear the cache of a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge?
We will now briefly describe to you in detail the different reasons that should push you to regularly delete the application cache of your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. Here they are:
- Protect your privacy: As we explained to you, the cache will keep all your browsing data, if ever you do not want a third party to find them, it is worth emptying it periodically
- Avoid bugs: There are many bugs caused by an overloaded cache or corrupted files. If this is your situation, do not hesitate for one second
- Optimize the performance of your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge: More data insinuates more calculations and research for your processor when you use an application, if ever your cache is empty your mobile phone will be especially faster
- Make room: You will also be able to recover storage space by deleting the cache, but we do not realize however the multimedia files are very large and you can quickly have several gigabytes of data in the cache
How to clear the cache on a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge?
Finally, we will end our article by showing you the technique that you are probably expecting, how to clear the cache of a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge? First of all we will show you the technique for a single application, then, for all the applications of your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. The procedures are similar, however we advise you to 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 Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge?
We start by showing you the technique for delete the cache of an application on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge :
- Open the "Settings" of your mobile phone
- Click on the "Applications" menu
- Choose the application you want to act on
- Click on "Storage"
- Finally click on " Empty the cache "
Be careful, this manipulation will empty the cache but will also delete app data from your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. You will therefore no longer be able to log in to your application automatically.
How to clear the cache of all applications of your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge?
Second option, you can simply empty your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge , understood, that of all applications. This is the recommended solution especially when you have storage concerns. Let's go:
- Open the “Settings” of your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
- Click on the "Device maintenance" menu
- Then on the "Memory" tab
- Finally, click " To clean " to clear the cache of all applications on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
If you ever want a lot of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Samsung Galaxy Edge S6.
