Your phone is full again, and the warning appears at exactly the wrong moment. Suddenly you can’t update apps, record a video, or save another photo.
The cause is rarely one giant file. Storage disappears in a steady drizzle of leftovers: temporary files an app creates and forgets, caches that grow in the background, and downloads you no longer need. None of it is dangerous, but it can gradually fill your phone’s storage.
Junk Cleaner is a new tool in Malwarebytes for Android, available from version 5.22. It finds that clutter, shows you what’s using space, and lets you decide what to remove.
What Junk Cleaner finds
Junk Cleaner looks for three broad categories of storage clutter:
