Clean Master app on android query

searchlight123

is this app of genuine use?
i have it installed on my samsung s5 phone and almost every other day it asks me to delete x amount of junk files. over the couple of months i have been using it i must have deleted around 10gb of so called junk off my 16gb phone.

my question is: if i had not used clean master would my phone have 'overfilled' for want of a better word and become unusable. i cannot believe that anyone who does not have this app installed fills their phone up so quickly with so much 'junk'?

agrinnall

What is the so-called junk that it is deleting? I don't have any such app and I have only used 8GB of 29GB available in 16 months. If it has really deleted 10GB then that must be files that you or other apps have downloaded, otherwise it's lying when it says that's what it's deleted.

AndyPix

Total garbage.
Android is great at managing its cache etc and this app is only clearing out stuff that would have been cleared out anyway and possibly some of it is still required by the OS so infact using apps such as this will actually slow down your phone.
Apps like this are pure snake oil and only serve to drain your battery and fire ads at you


Remove it


Andy

searchlight123

thanks andy and agrinall
i thought as much. i am going to uninstall and see if i max out my phone with junk!!

esuhl

I installed Clean Master when I first got an Android phone, but after looking into how Android works, I'm convinced that you're better off without this app, which could slow your phone down and drain its battery (if you're, say, regularly deleting cached files and removing an app from RAM, and then running the app to load it back into RAM and recreate the cached files).

searchlight123

esuhl wrote: »

I installed Clean Master when I first got an Android phone, but after looking into how Android works, I'm convinced that you're better off without this app, which could slow your phone down and drain its battery (if you're, say, regularly deleting cached files and removing an app from RAM, and then running the app to load it back into RAM and recreate the cached files).

To be honest the battery has been running down quite rapidly (whether that's due to clean master I don't know).
Having removed the app is there any cache cleaning etc I should be doing or should I just leave well alone and let the android 6 operating system deal with these issues?

esuhl

tonygold wrote: »

To be honest the battery has been running down quite rapidly (whether that's due to clean master I don't know).
Having removed the app is there any cache cleaning etc I should be doing or should I just leave well alone and let the android 6 operating system deal with these issues?

Just leave it alone. (I know that it can be hard to resist the urge to find stuff to tweak and fix if you're used to using Windows!)

There are a few built-in apps that I will never use. I manually deleted those apps' cache before disabling them to save (probably a tiny amount of) space. Otherwise, Android performs remarkably well without any "system tuning/tweaking" apps.