What "storage full" really means, and keeping it fed
Find out exactly what has filled the tablet up, and get several gigabytes back in five minutes.
"Storage full" arrives as an accusation. It sounds as though you have hoarded something. In practice it is nearly always two things you did not know were being kept.
The first is downloaded television — a series fetched to watch on a train, still sitting there eleven months later. The second is the thirty-day waiting room that deleted things go into. Between them they routinely account for half a tablet.
Key points
- Read the storage page and see exactly what has filled the tablet
- Clear watched programs, and set them to clear themselves from now on
- Say why "full" is almost never your photographs
What to remember
- Deal with downloaded programs and the deleted-items waiting room first. They are the two big ones and neither costs you anything.
- Work down the storage page biggest first, and start with whatever can be replaced free. Photographs come last, and usually never.
Try this
Open Settings, then Storage, on your own tablet and look at the top two lines. Do not change anything yet — only find out what the two biggest things actually are. For most people it is a surprise.
Practice: What "storage full" really means, and keeping it fed. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.