Whether you have memory problems on your Xiaomi Mi 11, slowness problems, application bugs for no reason... One of the possible explanations for this kind of problem will be the cache of your smartphone. You may never have heard of it, but this memory is constantly used by your smartphone for various reasons.
In this tutorial, we are going to teach you everything about the latter and, more particularly, explain to you how to clear the cache on a Xiaomi Mi 11? To do this, to begin with, we are going to explain to you what is the function of your phone's cache, then how to clean it, first from a single application and then from all the applications on your Xiaomi Mi 11.
What is the cache for on a Xiaomi Mi 11?
So we start this article by explaining the interest of the cache of a Xiaomi Mi 11. This memory can also be called buffer memory. She's actually coming store all of your data related to the use of an application.
For example, you are surfing on your favorite social network application, when you look at images it is necessary to download them to your phone, these data will end up in the application's cache, always available in the event that you wish view it again without having to re-download it.
This memory is therefore on paper really useful, because it gives you the opportunity to streamline your navigation on the different applications. Despite everything, we are far from reusing all of this memory, so sometimes we have to clean the cache of your Xiaomi Mi 11.
Why clear the cache of a Xiaomi Mi 11?
We will now quickly explain in detail the different reasons that should push you to regularly delete the application cache of your Xiaomi Mi 11. Here they are:
- Protect your privacy: As we explained to you, the cache will save all your browsing data, if you do not want a third party to be able to consult them, it is beneficial to empty it periodically
- Avoid bugs: There are many bugs caused by an overloaded cache or corrupted files. In the event that this is your case, do not hesitate for a second
- Optimize the performance of your Xiaomi Mi 11: More data means more calculations and searches for your processor as soon as you use an application, if your cache is empty your 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 Xiaomi Mi 11?
Finally, we will end our article by revealing the procedure that you are certainly waiting for, how to empty the cache of a Xiaomi Mi 11? First of all, we are going to show you the solution for a single application, then, for all the applications on your Xiaomi Mi 11. The methods are similar, however we recommend that you do it selectively, it is not good to do it for all applications too often.
How to clear the cache of a single application on your Xiaomi Mi 11?
We start suddenly by showing you the procedure for delete the cache of an application on your Xiaomi Mi 11 :
- Open the "Settings" of your phone
- 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 app data from your Xiaomi Mi 11. You will therefore no longer be able to log in to your application automatically.
How to empty the cache of all applications on your Xiaomi Mi 11?
Second solution, you can directly drain from your Xiaomi Mi 11 , understood, that of all applications. This is the recommended technique especially when you have storage problems. Let's go:
- Open the “Settings” of your Xiaomi Mi 11
- Click on the "Device maintenance" menu
- Then on the "Memory" tab
- To finish, click on " To clean " to empty the cache of all the applications of your Xiaomi Mi 11
If you are looking for a lot of tutorials to become a master of the Xiaomi Mi 11, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Xiaomi Mi 11.
