Whether you want to get rid of useless apps or gain memory, not everyone knows that you can delete multiple Android apps in one go
Everyone has at least once downloaded an app to their phone in the heat of the moment, perhaps because it was recommended by everyone, only to realize they never opened it again. But not everyone knows how to do it efficiently.
Scrolling through a long list of apps and trying to remember when you last used each one, or figuring out how much storage space each app takes up, can be a time-consuming task. Yet there’s a method that lets you assess both aspects – frequency of use and space occupied – at a glance, and the good news is that it’s present on all Android smartphones. The other good news is that it allows you to delete multiple Android apps at once, which avoids the – equally time-consuming – process of individually deleting the app you can do without. Here’s how to take advantage of this little Android “magic”.
A single list with two key pieces of information
The first thing you need to do to delete multiple Android apps in one go is to open the Google Play Store, which is the app you use to search for new apps to install. Once opened, you have to tap on the thumbnail with the profile picture set on your Google account, which is shown in the top right corner of the store’s home page.
This opens a new menu with a number of options. You have to ignore all of them except the first one, Manage App and Device. This option, once tapped on, shows among other things the amount of storage space remaining on the smartphone: it’s the option that will allow us to delete multiple Android apps in one go.
How to delete multiple apps in one go
In fact, tapping on it takes you to the screen that shows a list of all the apps installed on the phone along with, in particular, two pieces of information that are very useful for those who are about to delete apps. On the one hand, the actual size of the individual app is shown, that is, the portion of internal memory actually occupied by the app and the data it contains.
The longer you use an app, the greater its impact on the system memory, so if you have a smartphone with not too much storage space and you’re uninstalling an app to gain memory, you may find the information about the space it takes up very interesting, so you can see which apps take up the most space and which ones you can give up.
The second very useful information is the one about the last time an app was used. If you want to free up memory by deleting apps you never use or don’t use much, just scroll through the list and tap on the box at the right edge of the screen associated with the app(s) in question.
When you’re done selecting the Android apps you want to delete, just tap on the trash icon at the top right corner of the screen to see a window appear asking you to confirm that you really want to delete the selected apps. At this point, just tap on Uninstall to see the Android apps you want to delete disappear in one go.