Telegram is currently one of the most popular instant messaging applications. Its various features and services make it so special for its millions of users. Despite this, as happens with applications of this type, one of its biggest problems is the internal storage consumption of the mobile device.
Unlike alternatives like WhatsApp, in the case of Telegram Most of the time, data storage is done in the cloud, so the smartphone usually suffers less in this section.
With this, a lot of information is downloaded and saved in the terminal as you use it, and when you realize it, a large portion of your storage it is completely saturated.
It is already known that Telegram base your cloud storage which can be useful to release this section on your cell phone. The drawback is that it also has its downside.
In case you have cleared the app cache to free up space when you want to take a look at old content within a chat, it will start downloading all the media again.
Fortunately, Telegram It has some interesting features in this regard. The first is the how long you want the app to keep the media files on your device before automatically removing it.
If you go to “Settings > Data and storage > Storage usage” you will find an option called “Keep Media” and different alternatives ranging from 3 days, 1 week, 1 month and unlimited. Just set how long you want to keep media files on your device and you’re good to go.
As for the second alternative, you can select different options for multimedia auto-download, whether it is done with mobile data, Wi-Fi or through data roaming.
You can too disable these options so that the download of multimedia files within a chat, whether new or old, is done manually, where you can select what you want to download and what not.
This is useful mainly because you limit the amount of media files that are downloaded to your phone and you will prevent the storage from being saturated, especially if you have many groups.
It often happens that there is a conversation with some contact and we forget the chat for a long time or maybe one day you decided to try a bot and never opened that chat again. An excellent starting point for clean Telegram and free up storage space it is precisely delete all those chats that you won’t need.
For it, select all the chats you want to disappear and then slide your finger to the trash can icon shown at the bottom and then “Empty chat > Empty Chat”. This will erase all data, images, audio and more from your device, freeing up storage space on your mobile.
Consider that if you want to delete Telegram messages and entire conversations for all participants, that is, those that are not with bots, you must confirm if you want it to be deleted for the other person or only for you.
The last of these options is one of the simplest. It is about clearing the cache of the application, and in this case, your conversations, data or multimedia files will not be deleted, only the copy stored on your mobile will be removed.
This option is also found in “Settings > Storage data > Storage usage” you will find a section called “Clear Telegram cache”. There will be displayed information that occupies this section in storage of your mobile.
Just choose everything you want to delete and then delete them from your computer, thus you will be freeing up unnecessary storage space.
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