Guides to a tidier Android gallery
Plain-language answers to the questions behind a full phone: where the copies come from, where the space went, where a removed photo goes, and what a cleaner app should and should not do.
How to find and delete duplicate photos on Android
Where the copies come from, how an exact copy differs from a photo that only looks the same, which copy to keep, and how the trash lets you undo it.
Read the guide →How to find similar and blurry photos on Android
Burst shots, re-saved copies and badly exposed photos are not duplicates, so a file comparison misses them. How a visual fingerprint finds them, and why you still pick the keeper.
Read the guide →Phone storage full, nothing to delete? Where the space goes
How Android divides a phone between media, apps, system and the trash, why free space does not move after a cleanup, and what a photo cleaner can and cannot touch.
Read the guide →Where deleted photos go on Android: the trash, 30 days, Restore
On Android 11 and newer a removed photo can wait in the system trash for 30 days. How to restore it, why it still takes up space, and what no app can bring back.
Read the guide →Are photo cleaner apps safe? What to check first
Four checks you can make on the phone itself: the permissions a cleaner holds, whether it can reach the internet, where removed files go, and who confirms each removal.
Read the guide →How to clean up your gallery by swiping on Android
One photo at a time, a month at a time: right keeps, left marks for the trash, and nothing moves until you check the list. When swiping beats a grid, and the safety net under it.
Read the guide →The app these guides are written around.
Duplicates, similar photos, big videos, screenshots and chat media, reviewed in a grid or one by one, with Android's trash as the default. No internet permission.
