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Why You Should Delete Digital Trash From Your Phone
Get rid of obsolete photos and files. Keep your device light.
Check your phone now. How many photos you currently have on it? Then — how many of them would you like to bring along with your life?
Like many others, I keep loads of photos on my mobile. Thanks to the generous phone storage, I never need to declutter my mess and so used to allow my photo album to grow infinitely.
Until one day, my phone alerted me about hitting the repository’s maximum. I had no choice but to transfer all the photos to the external hard disk.
Ironic as it may seem, while I was looking through my pictures, I noticed that my device was full of random images like a screen capture in an app, a meal that I took to share with friends, or hundreds of photos of the 2nd products that I am selling online. And obviously, those images were all outdated.
Let’s go back to the primary question of why a photo is essential — It captures the moment and reminds us of the beautiful memory of our days. Yet, when I looked at the album on my device, it is more like a landfill with the one-off digital trash. My cherished memory hid in the ocean of data, and hardly could I access them easily.
