5 Easy Ways to Free up Space on Your Smartphone

Free up space in your smartphone with these 5 easy methods.

Are you all the time worried about storage space in your smartphone? Does the inadequate storage message trouble you? Well, everyone of us comes across this perennial downside whereas making an attempt to take new photos, or save movies or songs.


For individuals who frequently find themselves running out of space and have to handle it, it is strongly recommended to get a smartphone with extra storage next time. Nonetheless, for those, who want to proceed with their present smartphone and want to free up space in their phones, we’ve got some space-saving suggestions for their gadget.


On this article, we attempt to bring you some fast approach to free up space in your smartphone. Nonetheless, please notice that the following tips don’t include deleting motion pictures and TV shows.

Delete pictures and videos 

 

Have an enormous collection of memorable photos or 4K video clips however don’t want to delete them? Whereas the simpler possibility to create space in your smartphone could be to go to the gallery app of your selection and simply delete among the pictures and clips. Nevertheless, you could wish to retain most of them.


For Android smartphones, there may be Google Photos that provides free up space option on the primary app menu that scans for photos and movies which have already transferred to the cloud and deletes the local copies. To do that on Android devices manually, go to Device folders from the app menu, select a group of images, tap the three dots on the menu bar and choose Delete device copy.


Additionally, examine your backup settings—Google Photos lets you choose between storing originals and resized copies within the cloud. Solely, if you’re happy with the arrangement you’ve gotten set up, delete the local copies.


Nonetheless, it’s a bit riskier to delete local copies of files on Apple’s Photos app in iOS, whereas keeping the iCloud backups, because the apps are specifically set up to keep every part in sync. The one easy solution is to make use of Apple’s own automatic Optimize iPhone Storage option from the Photos & Camera menu in Settings. This makes use of low-resolution copies in your smartphone when space is limited, whereas retaining the originals available within the cloud.

Delete games you might be not be playing

 

Typically the worst culprits, video games eat loads of space in your device so far as storage goes. Whereas uninstalling apps can take away some space in your smartphone, you should choose apps of a considerable size to really clear the decks.


You will need to double-check what occurs to any saved video games you’ve gotten saved earlier than removing any title. Nevertheless, if they’re in a secure place within the cloud (otherwise you simply don’t need them), then erasing video games you’re now not playing could be a actual space saver.

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If are positive and happy that you just won’t be deleting something necessary that you just can’t retrieve later, then go forward and take away a couple of video games.
To take a look at how a lot storage every game makes use of on Android, you’ll be able to go to Settings and tap on Apps. On iOS, from Settings choose General, Storage & iCloud Usage and Manage Storage.

Delete browser downloads

 

Do you commonly download massive files from the net and forget about them? Stock Android provides a Downloads app right in the primary app drawer, to be able to shortly check what you’ve got in there and erase something that aren’t required.


Nonetheless, alternatively, iOS doesn’t enable you do something as unsafe as download files. Saved pictures are in your Photos app, however that’s about it.


On Android and iOS, you’ll be able to clear the web site and history data out of your mobile browsers too, however the space for storing are unlikely to be vital.

Delete synced playlists

 

Perhaps one of many causes behind your smartphone running out of space for storing could possibly be the totally different kind of album collection you could have in your device. If sure, you’ll be able to rapidly go through the listing and delete those that you don’t want, which in turn will provide you with some space in your smartphone.


In Spotify, go to Your Library from the primary app menu (or the navigation tab) and the playlists you’ve synced are in green. To erase its contents out of your device, tap on anyone and uncheck the offline toggle change.


(You may not get again all of the space immediately— in case you made a mistake, Spotify appears to keep the tracks cached for a short while.)


In Google Play Music, you’ll be able to go to Manage downloads from Settings on the primary app menu to really see tracks in your device. Tap the orange tick next to any playlist, album or song to remove it out of your smartphone.


In Apple Music, within the Music section of the Settings app on iOS, there’s an helpful Downloaded Music entry that you need to use to delete cached tracks. Whereas there isn’t a such option on Android, it’s essential to go to My Music from the primary app menu, then tap Artists and choose Only Downloaded Music to see locally saved songs.


In Spotify, you can too scale back the quality of cached tracks to free up space: the option is behind the Streaming Quality menu within the app settings (iOS) or within the app settings below Music Quality (Android).

Delete cached maps 

Do you’ve the behavior of caching offline maps in advance, as you retain traveling around remote parts of the world? Whereas this feature is useful, it will probably nevertheless eat quite a lot of storage space in your device, in case you’ve got half of the country on your local storage.


Whereas there isn’t any solution for Apple Maps, because it manages offline caching automatically, you may try it for Google Maps and Here Maps. In Google Maps, go to Offline areas from the primary app menu, tap on an area and you’re going to get the choice to delete it out of your smartphone.


If you don’t want this to occur sooner or later, you’ll be able to set offline areas to automatically take away themselves after 30 days: tap on the gear icon to turn off the automatic updates from the same Offline areas display screen.


Nonetheless, check the offline cache in case you are using a different app —it’s behind Download maps on the primary app menu for Android and iOS within the case of the Here Maps, and you’ll swipe left (iOS) to delete a map or just tap any of the related trash icons (Android).

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Societe Generale Europe Launches Mobile Money Solution for Africa

European financial services group, Societe Generale has launched a mobile money solution for Africa called YUP.

According to a statement from the company, the solution aims to provide a full range of transactional and financial services to the banked and unbanked, offering a new alternative to the traditional banking model in Africa.

The solution was already launched in Ivory Coast and Senegal, with plans to release in Ghana and in Cameroon by the end of 2017, and in Burkina Faso, Togo and Guinea in 2018.

Societe Generale says YUP already has more than 30 000 open wallets and nearly 600 agents. The company aims to open one million wallets in the next three years, to double its individual customer base in sub-Saharan Africa and create a network of 8000 agents to serve users.

"Africa is inventing the future of banking. The project's key ambition is to be a part of this revolution by offering a simple transactional tool that's accessible to all residents of the countries in which Societe Generale does business, be they individuals or corporations, Group customers, account holders with our competitors, or customers without bank accounts," says Alexandre Maymat, the company's head of the Africa/Mediterranean Basin & Overseas region.

According to Maymat, customers without bank accounts make up to 80%-90% of the population depending on the country," and it's a major financial inclusion challenge in which the Group wants to take part through YUP," he adds.

The company says the service is based on an Agency Banking model, a network of third-party agents with whom the bank has formed partnerships (service stations, distribution trade, etc.).

YUP is accessible via a network of distributors equipped with adapted terminals and via the company's mobile banking app.

Customers can withdraw, deposit, and transfer money pay bills, buy phone credit, and make payments to merchants.

The solution also digitises corporates' payment flows. "Soon, financial services like payday advances, credit, savings products, and international transfers will be added," the company adds.
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Broadband Can Help Achieve Sustainable Development Goals

DURBAN - A report released by the United Nations (UN) Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development says that broadband will play an important role in development.

According to the report broadband technologies today are a driving significant transformation in lots of sectors that are related to development such as health, food security, financial inclusion and education.

Therefore broadband will play a key role in achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are:
No Poverty
Zero Hunger
Good Health and Well Being
Quality Education
Gender Equality
Clean Water and Sanitation
Affordable and Clean Energy
Decent Work and Economic Growth
Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Reduced Inequalities
Sustainable Cities and Communities
Responsible Consumption and Production
Climate Action
Life Below Water
Life on Land
Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Partnerships for the Goals
Digital technology and ICTs (information communication technology) offer big opportunities to help enhance the lives of people and improve development results. They also help achieve three of the goals mentioned above.

The report details the many ways that technology and ICTs are improving food security and putting an end to hunger; helping to improve health and well being and securing quality education that is inclusive for everyone.

Technology related to broadband are effective tools to promote nutrition including improving agriculture systems, bettering flexibility of food systems that could be affected by the economy or the climate and helping to improve knowledge of food choices.

Health in relation to technology have been important to improve the health of people in the past two decades. Now there has been a shift from making eHealth a small part of healthcare to making it central to strategic health planning. Broadband can serve as the support for future health systems by providing national eHealth strategies.

Broadband and ICT’s can be used in health sector to train health professionals through e-learning, connect distant communities with clinics and introduce electronic medical records.

Education in association with broadband can be used to boost education systems, increase access to information and drive learning.

The report states that ICT’s must be implemented into planning, curriculum, teacher training and schools.

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Foundation Harps on Digital Information Literacy

THE Gani Adams Foundations (GAF) has joined the world to celebrate the World Literacy Day.

Fifty-one years ago, United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)  proclaimed September 8 as International Literacy Day to mobilise the international community to promote literacy as an instrument for empowerment.

The Osun Hall of the Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja venue of the event, was filled with intellectuals, cultural enthusiasts, media practitioners, teachers and pupils who lent their voices to the importance of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the 20th century.

GAF’s Chairman/Managing Director, Otunba Gani Adams, who was excited with this year’s theme: ‘Literacy in the digital world’, underscored the need for Africans to shift from ‘analogue operation’.
In her lecture titled: ‘Literacy in a digital world’, Dr Kemi Ojemoghaat of the Department of Adult Education, University of Lagos (UNILAG), described digital literacy as a sine qua non to living, adding that technology dictates communication and interaction within mankind.

She called on the government to make digital literacy affordable, and create a link between the teaching of ICT in schools and industries.

She said: “A survey conducted by Research ICT Africa in 2011, disclosed that 70 per cent of non- internet users in Nigeria say affordability is the main reason for not using the internet. The majority of internet users in Nigeria access it exclusively using mobile devices. Smart phones and tablets have become very popular in Nigeria.

“Nevertheless, a mobile broadband cost is high for most people in a country like Nigeria where low per capita incomes subsists.’’

She continued: “The ICT curriculum does not provide the skills that industry value. Despite support from the government, many ICT teachers still do not have the qualifications or knowledge to teach the computing curriculum. Given the pace of technological advances, it will always be a challenge for schools to keep up with the latest innovations.”

A retired professor of African Philosophy at UNILAG, Sophie Oluwole, lamented the loss of Yoruba oral tradition, which according to her, forms the bedrock of knowledge acquisition.
Ifa, Oluwole explained, is a warehouse of knowledge, which cuts across all disciplines including ICT, if acquired.

“If Ifa has over 256 odu and yet our fore fathers without the knowledge of reading and writing, were able to not only memorise, but also passed same to the next generation. Unfortunately, the influence of modern religions have made those practice look fetish or Satanic to an average Yoruba. But I can tell you that Ifa is the bedrock of intellectual knowledge which can be learned to derive new inspirations in engineering, science,and ICT, just name it.”

Oluwole said it was not too late for Nigeria to ape Asian countries, such as Japan, China, and Malaysia, which have attained technological advancement through adoption of their mother tongue as official languages.

Adams said he was praised the UN for the choice of the theme.

“I love this year’s theme,” he said.

“Truth is, the world is going digital and the United Nations through the theme, is challenging us to drastically reduce our analogue way of doing things.

“Some developed societies no longer conduct their activities manually. Even some corporate bodies and institutions are going digital. Some conduct paperless meetings. This reduces work load or hauling of papers and files from one office to another.

“For instance, the mobile phones we use have several applications beyond mere making and receiving calls; unfortunately, most of us only use it to make calls, and failing to utilise other apps for knowledge possession.”

Adams said GAF had identified with the UN through propagating, organising interactive sessions and giving educational materials to schools.

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Micronet Offers SQA ICT Courses

MICRONET International College (MIC) is offering the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) courses in Brunei Darussalam, providing quality education and wider options for enthusiasts dreaming to join the ICT industry.

Working across the United Kingdom and internationally, Scottish Qualifications Authority is based in Scotland (UK) and acknowledged by government organisations, universities, businesses and individuals throughout the world. SQA is sponsored by the Scottish Government’s Learning Directorate. SQA courses offered at the college are accredited by the Brunei Darussalam National Accreditation Council (BDNAC).

The SQA courses available at the college range from National Certificate to Higher National Diploma (HND) level. Those with four GCE ‘O’ Level or four IGCSE ‘O’ Level passes, or BDTVEC Skill Certificate 2 in Information Technology or other acceptable qualifications are eligible to apply for the SQA National Certificate in Mobile Technology.

Upon completion, learners can proceed to the Pearson BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Information Technology or NCC Level 4 Diploma in Computing. Learners can further leverage their skills as they progress to HND, such as the SQA HND courses of HND Computer Science, HND Computing (Software Development), HND Computing (Networking) and HND Computing (Technical Support).

Upon graduation, learners can pursue their degree locally or abroad.

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Local ICT Players: the Impact on Work Integrated Learning

In the spirit of good corporate citizenship, organisations both in the public and private sectors in Namibia have an active role to play when it comes to Work Integrated Learning (WIL) internship initiatives by the local Tertiary Institutions. La Trobe University defined Work Integrated Learning as an umbrella term used to describe a range of approaches that integrate theory with the practice of work within a purposefully designed curriculum.

In Namibia specifically, it has been found that many tertiary students have limited options when it comes to internship opportunities even though it is an academic requirement during their final year of studies before obtaining their respective qualifications.

However, some students have experienced challenges in this regard and as a result, they have had some delays with obtaining their qualifications when they have not had an opportunity to complete the work integrated learning programme. Another concern is that most graduates lack real world experience as they have not been exposed to work integrated learning.

The purpose of the WIL programme ultimately is for students to undertake an internship to enable them to apply theoretical knowledge gained from their studies in a practical setting. Tertiary institutions look to the various industries to provide controlled working environment in the form of job placement opportunities in this regard.

Although different organisations may have different requirements and arrangements as far as their WIL programmes are concerned, those who have incorporated this initiative in their operations have made a significant impact in this regard. In fact, most Namibian professionals started out as interns and with hard work, dedication and the right attitude they grew in their professions.

Green Enterprise Solutions, a local company that provides Information and Communication Technology (ICT); has also opened its doors to college and university students for internship opportunities. The company has a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Namibian University of Science and Technology to take in their students for work integrated learning.

Over the past six years to date, Green has housed a number of students from the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), University of Namibia (UNAM), Institute of Information Technology (IIT), International University of Management (IUM) and Lingua College.

For Green, the internship programme offers a wide range of opportunities for students to gain insight in the technical and administrative programmes of ICT, namely in software development, infrastructure technologies, networking and security, warranty services, project management, sales and marketing.

The duration of Green internships is between three to six months or longer, depending on the internship guide and requirements as well as performance of the interns.

At an induction session earlier last week, Green’s managing director Llewellyn le Hane highlighted that as a Namibian company, it is important to actively participate in this programme else Namibia will not have local capable resources to contribute to the development of Namibia with bespoke ICT solutions.

Present at the event was Carol Millward, NUST’s industry liaison officer who motivated the NUST intakes to take this opportunity seriously and make the most out of it. Millward added she was humbled to have been part of this session and hopes many other industry players will continue to support NUST and other tertiary institutions in this programme.

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NCC donates Computers to Nigerian Women in Information Technology

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) recently presented five (5) sets of Computers to the Nigerian Women in Information Technology (NIWIT).  This was a follow up to the ICT training and  competition organized by  the group in partnership with the Oyo State Ministry of Education and The Nigerian Communications Commission, Ibadan Zonal Office for girls in  secondary school in Oyo State.


The presentation ceremony which held at the NCC headquarters in Abuja, the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC), Prof Umar Danbatta represented by the Director Public Affairs, Mr. Tony Ojobo enumerated the contribution of ICT to the development of the Nigerian economy.

According to him “many businesses such as Banking, Hospitality Industries, Airlines, health and many more are getting more sophisticated and easier to run due to the employment of ICT tools.” He went further to say that ICT development has enabled us to live a digital life where in the comfort of your room you can virtually do a lot of things.

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