Go the whole space hog
Don’t upgrade in haste if the storage on your mobile is close to bursting point, writes
No matter how big the storage capacity of your phone, it will fill up sooner than you think. It’s a state of affairs that manufacturers are happy to maintain, since many users will take an “out of space” message as a cue to upgrade their handsets. But your phone’s storage is like that in your wardrobe: you can clear things out and move them around for months or even years before finally giving up.
This is not always as easy as it sounds, however, because not all space is the same, especially on Android phones.
The confusion arises where “expandable” storage is concerned. This is the ability to insert a thumbnail-sized and cheaply upgradeable Micro SD card into your phone, to increase its capacity from the advertised 16 or 32 gigabytes to potentially 256GB. But while this is useful for storing your music and videos, it’s not always available for use by apps – and it is those that are often the biggest space hogs.
The developers of some apps allow you to move them over to the SD card from within your phone’s system settings. But many more do not, and you can tell only by examining the storage setting for each app in turn to see if the option is available. You will find it under “app info”, although the labels vary between phones. Really, you’d have thought there would be an app that could reliably scan them all and do the job for you automatically, but I’ve yet to find one.
iPhones are easier in the sense that they don’t accommodate SD cards in the first place, so the space your handset came with