Amazon's Fire tablets are normally a keen value, just they typically come with less internal storage than most smartphones. The cheapest models come up with just 16GB of space, with less than that bachelor for downloading apps and storing data.In this guide, we'll get over some ways you tin can clear up the junk on your Fire tablet.

Delete some apps (duh)

This is probably very obvious to nearly of y'all, but the first step y'all should take is deleting any apps you previously downloaded that you don't use. Amazon unfortunately doesn't let you lot delete the dozens of pre-installed applications that come up with your tablet (who really uses the Maps app?), but you can still get rid of apps and games yous oasis't opened in forever.

Get an SD card

All Burn down tablets take a microSD bill of fare slot that you can employ for extra storage. Yet, depending on how quondam your tablet is, adding an SD card might not help matters much.

If you have a tablet running Fire Bone half-dozen.0 or newer, SD cards tin actually function equally an extension to your tablet's internal storage, using an Android characteristic called Adoptable Storage. This means apps and other information can be moved to the SD carte as needed. When you insert an SD carte, an option will appear to utilise the card equally internal storage.

Y'all can check what version of Fire OS your tablet has by opening the Settings app and going to Device Options > System Updates..

If y'all accept an older tablet, virtually apps tin't be moved to the SD bill of fare — information technology can mostly only exist used every bit extra space for downloads and offline content. For instance, the Netflix and Amazon Prime Video apps can exist configured to download content to the SD bill of fare instead of the internal storage. This method won't do much to cure your storage woes, unless your tablet's infinite is being taken up past downloaded files that can exist easily moved.

Regardless of what option you go with, you should buy a microSD card with the A2 rating, so you get the best possible performance (the 'A' means information technology'south improve for running apps from). We recommend SanDisk'southward Extreme Pro cards. Equally nosotros've covered in item, even the fastest microSD cards are slower than the internal storage used by modern phones and tablets, but your options with a Fire tablet are limited.

Clean up the junk

Android apps can be pretty messy. Some apps and games leave cached files and data all over your internal storage, even afterward the apps themselves are deleted. Files by Google is a bully tool for cleaning up downloads, junk information, duplicate files, and more unwanted cruft from your Fire tablet.

If you lot've already installed the Google Play Shop on your Burn tablet (perhaps with our guide?), y'all can only download Files by Google from the Play Store. If you lot don't accept the Play Store, yous can nonetheless grab the Files app from APKMirror.

Annal stuff you lot don't apply

Amazon has a 'ane-Tap Archive' feature that automatically removes content downloaded to your tablet from the deject. As opposed to simply deleting the content, anything archived tin be re-downloaded at whatever time.

To admission this characteristic, open the Settings app, and select Storage from the list. You tin can either printing the large 'Annal Now' push to let the tablet practise its thing, or yous tin see what exactly will be archived past tapping the 'View Contents' push.

Bank check your apps

The concluding way you tin can articulate upward storage on your Fire tablet, brusk of a factory reset, is to get through all installed applications to see which are hogging up infinite. Open the Settings app, go to 'Apps & Notifications', and tap 'Manage All Applications.' Then press the card push button at the elevation-right corner and tap the option to show system apps.

There isn't an option to sort apps by how much storage they are taking up, and so you accept to slowly whorl downwardly the list to run across which ones are taking up lots of space (the information size is under each app). When yous discover a culprit, tap it and select Uninstall. If it's a system app that tin't be removed, select 'Storage' and tap 'Clear data.'

It's normal for apps to require up to 100 or 200MB of storage, so you're looking for apps using much more that. On my tablet, DeviceSoftwareOTA (the service that downloads OS updates) was using a whopping ane.5GB of storage. Other reports say that the Amazon Appstore likes to eat up storage as well.