That’s exactly the question this guide looks to answer. More importantly, we won’t just be looking at file sizes. Since there are a lot of reasons you might want to uninstall an app or apps, well beyond how much storage space they take up. So if you need to uninstall some apps that are taking up space but aren’t sure which apps those are, this guide can show you how.
How to see which apps are taking up the most space
As noted above, there are a lot of reasons to get rid of an app that’s taking up space. And that’s not just by file size. But also how often you actually need or use apps. There are, as of this writing and based on a quick review of various reports, well over 2 million Android apps in the Google Play Store alone. Most of those, you’ll never even stumble across, let alone download. But with so many apps, there are apps that effectively do everything. And any number of alternatives for everything too. So it’s easy to end up with apps taking up way more space than you’d like, and no easy way to remove them if you don’t know where to look. Android offers a great solution to the problem too. Built right into the Google Play Store, alongside so many other useful features, where you’ve likely downloaded the overwhelming majority of your apps. Additionally, as with many of our how-to guides, this will work on an Android tablet or phone — or a Chromebook. So let’s take a look.
…and how to uninstall them
Now, after sorting your apps how you’d like in the Google Play Store, it remains to delete an app — or apps — to free up some space, but how, exactly, do you do that? In fact, this process is relatively straightforward too, unless you’re unfamiliar with Android’s UI.
