Clear Hidden Chrome Storage on Android
A quick tutorial showing how to delete cached website data in Chrome to free up internal storage.
Summary
ANDROID MAN demonstrates how to clear accumulated website data in Google Chrome on Android devices that many users don't know exists. He explains that Chrome stores data from every visited website, which can accumulate to 15-30 GB over time, consuming internal storage even when users aren't actively downloading files or taking photos. The tutorial walks through accessing Chrome's hidden "saved data" settings and clearing all stored website information. While this frees up significant storage space, users will need to log back into their accounts after clearing the data.
Key Takeaways
FULL TRANSCRIPT
Discovering Chrome's Hidden Memory Usage
ANDROID MAN: Hello everyone. Did you know that Google Chrome, the browser on every Android smartphone, works a lot in the background and consumes a lot of your internal memory? Please, after watching this video, leave a comment below about how much memory you managed to clear.
Now, I'll show you this setting that many people aren't even aware of. Then they wonder, "Where does my memory go? I don't seem to be taking photos, downloading anything, or playing games. Yet, my memory keeps decreasing."
Accessing the Hidden Chrome Setting
Let me show you this hidden setting. Go to your Google Chrome browser. Click on the top right, three dots, then settings. Scroll almost to the bottom here to site settings. Go to this section here. Scroll to the bottom to saved data.
Go in here and pay attention. All the sites you visited are listed and you might have a lot of them. Each site uses up a certain amount of memory and this can really pile up endlessly. You might find 20 GB, 30 GB that can be cleared.
Clearing the Accumulated Data
Click on delete all data and see if I delete now. I'll clear 274 kilobytes of memory. Of course, that's not much because I regularly clean this section of Google Chrome, sometimes visit specific sites, and memory usage accumulates. Click delete all data, and you'll clear it all, freeing up memory.
If you've never been in this section of the Google Chrome browser, you might be surprised just how much memory it eats up. I clean regularly, so there wasn't much for me to clear. Check your own device and please comment how much memory you had. I have smartphones where 15 GB of memory is occupied and so on. Just go ahead and clear everything.
Important Considerations
The only thing to keep in mind when you clear all this data, yes, you'll gain a lot of memory, a lot, but you might be logged out of these sites, out of your accounts. Just log back into these accounts and you'll have clean memory. You'll log in again and things will accumulate anew depending on how often you use these sites.
Performance Benefits
That's all. I'm sure this video will help many of you increase memory by several gigabytes. Leave your comments on how much memory you managed to clear. Share this video with your friends so they can clean their phones too. And note the more free memory on your smartphone, the faster and smoother it runs. It won't lag.
Pay attention to where the memory is used. Google Chrome will clear all this memory from the other section. So, go ahead, check it out and clean up to increase memory on your Android smartphones.