Solutions and tips to fix SAMSUNG GALAXY S21 Internal Storage Full. This is high end smartphone that powered by Exynos 2100 or Qualcomm SM8350 Snapdragon 888 depend on country release. As flagship smartphone this phone will have big internal memory. It has two options with 128 GB or 256 GB. However, some users get low free storage problems after use for several months. Why?
As we know this phone has good specifications with Dynamic AMOLED 2X screen type at 6.2 inches and also have good cameras performance with triple 12 megapixel for wide + 64 megapixel for telephotos + 12 megapixel for ultrawide. We will have many photos and videos that taken with daily acitivity. Because this phone does not have external memory, then all photos videos will be saved inside internal memory. This problems can make our internal storage become full.
Beside photos and videos that taken from phone camera, the low free storage also happen because chatting applications. Some applications like Whatsapp will saved media files inside internal memory. Therefore we still will get memory full although we have removed some installed applications.
Please note: some menu and instruction bellow maybe different because of Android firmware upgrade to new version.
There are 4 easy solutions to fix SAMSUNG GALAXY S21 internal memory full problems :
- Remove or uninstall not use applications
- Move photos / videos storage to cloud storage
- Erase Social Media / Chatting Media or history
- Clean Applications Caches or Temporary Files by soft reset or from menu Setting
# More information about each solutions above #
1. Remove or Uninstall not use applications on SAMSUNG GALAXY S21:
Our internal memory will have limited storage after use for several period. Most users have installed some not use applications. Please try to find it our from applications list on SAMSUNG GALAXY S21, then uninstall that apps for give more free internal storage:
- Turn On SAMSUNG GALAXY S21
- Go to Menu: Settings > Apps
- Find carefully all not use applications or games, tab on that applications and press Uninstall button
- This process have to be done one by one, repeat again until we sure only important applications left on our applications list
- Finish
2. Move photos / videos storage to cloud storage
By default all captured photos and videos from default camera applications will be keep or save on internal memory. Because this phone does not have external memory, then we can not move photos and videos to MicroSD. We suggest to connect our phone to cloud storage like Google Drive or Dropbox, then move all old photos videos to cloud storage server using its own applications. Please download Google Drive or Dropbox apps from Google Play Store.
3. Erase Social Media / Chatting Media or history
Some users install several social media group chat. This common problems on SAMSUNG GALAXY S21 when Facebook or Instagram or Whatsapp or Signal or Telegram or some other installed applications keep data on internal memory, then our internal storage will be insufficient although we already remove several installed apps or move files to external memory.
Therefore we have to find that applications and try to clean or move manually.
#1 Tips for move WhatsappChatting media images and videos to external memory on SAMSUNG GALAXY S21:
- Turn On SAMSUNG GALAXY S21
- Open File Manager applications (My files)
- Choose Internal storage
- Choose Whatsapp folder to open
- Choose Media folder to open
- Find any Whatsapp Images or Video files and move to external memory or we can remove several files if we do not use them anymore.
#2 Tips for move Telegram Chatting media images and videos to external memory on SAMSUNG GALAXY S21:
- Turn On SAMSUNG GALAXY S21
- Open File Manager applications (My files)
- Choose Internal storage
- Choose Telegram folder to open
- Find any Telegram Images or Video files and move to external memory or we can remove several files if we do not use them anymore.
#3 Tips for Clean Facebook data on SAMSUNG GALAXY S21:
- Turn On SAMSUNG GALAXY S21
- Choose Settings > Apps
- Find Facebook or any other social media applications
- Choose Storage menu
- We will see how many total space used
- If we want to remove caches or temporary files, choose Clear caches (it will not change any login account at this applications)
- If we want to remove all data, choose Clear Data(IMPORTANT: we will remove all account at this applications, and we may need to re-login/sign-in)
Above information will give several simple solutions to free up space on SAMSUNG GALAXY S21, because some users get troubles with low internal storage although we already remove or delete many files from internal memory. However, if we still get troubles with storage capacity, then we can try to do hard reset or reformat SAMSUNG GALAXY S21 to factory default, for clean all storage space back to factory default.
If we still get low free storage problems on SAMSUNG GALAXY S21, please check Download folder at internal memory using File Manager applications (or other suspected folders), to make sure we never download big files. Because sometime we download some files from website or social media or chatting applications.