Declutter your Phone, Tablet, or Ipad, Step 2 Sept Declutter Project

Declutter your Phone, Tablet, or Ipad, Step 2 of the September Declutter Project

I got my first Android device a few years ago and promptly started downloading all the apps that would make me more productive, and then went to a few conventions and downloaded the apps that the speakers recommended, then downloaded a few more based on recommendations on AR and other publications.

Before long my tablet was working very slow, then it got slower still, and soon it could barely start much less be productive.

I tried deleting a few things, and found that I still had plenty of memory but something was still not working well.

In desperation, I wrote down the names of some of my favorite apps, backed up my data, and proceeded to do a factory reset.

That did the trick, but now to start over finding all of my apps, or at least the ones that I really needed.

Fortunately when I went back to the Google store I found that they not only remembered everything that I had ever downloaded, but had them in a special tab listing what was on my tablet and what was on my phone.

Just because reloading would be easy did not mean that I would be making the mistake of reloading everything.

The reload was gradual, just a few apps at a time, I wanted to find out which app was causing the problems.  And, I really did not need all of these apps anyway.

Since this time I am very selective about which apps go onto my phone and tablet.

If I download something and it does not work well, it goes right into the dumpster.

If I go through my icons and find things that sounded like a good idea but just don't get used, then off to the dumpster they go too.

I have to remember that real estate on my devices is valuable land and it should not be wasted with every flavor of the day app that sounds good at first and really does not work or does not get used, after all these not only take up space with extra icons but they also use up memory and bandwidth.

happy decluttering!!