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27th Jul 2016

These are the apps eating up the most storage on your smartphone

Alan Loughnane

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Take note if you’re struggling for space on your smartphone…

One of the most frustrating things on your smartphone is the appearance of a warning stating your memory is full.

It’s a problem iPhone users will know only too well…

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At this point you must choose between which of your many photos you must delete to free up some space. The problem is, you can delete a mountain of photo memories off your device and that pesky notification will be popping up again the day after.

For those of you struggling with this problem, these are the apps that take up the most storage on your device as revealed by AVG’s Android App Performance and Trend Report.

Top ten apps which hog storage…

  1. Facebook
  2. Amazon Kindle
  3. Google Chrome
  4. Sp Mode Mail
  5. Google Maps
  6. Skype
  7. Facebook Messenger
  8. YouTube
  9. Instagram
  10. Tango

This data was collected in the opening half of this year before the growth spurt of Pokemon GO, hence its omission from the list.

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