Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

Android phones rarely slow down overnight. Performance usually erodes in small, frustrating steps as apps pile up temporary files, browsers hoard old images, and the system juggles more cached data ...

However, as time marches on, the volume of these temporary files can grow unwieldy, leading to a cluttered cache that may do more harm than good. This accumulation can bog down your computer’s ...

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