I'd use one of the more reputable cleaners before trashing it. Caches seem to often hold loads, each app can have one. CCleaner does the job but I just install it, use it then delete it cos I don't want it doing stuff without me knowing and I don't trust it. If she uses social media much there could be a large number of video/music clips tucked away.
Check the DCIM library for many photos or videos.
Stick it on a PC and see if there are any hidden folders (folder name starts with .)
SWMBOs recent new phone installed itself quite well without much to do with the Google account details.
You can screenshot the screens showing the apps to recreate them if you want but that's tedious. Though in SWMBOs case she takes more time arranging the screens than anything!!
I don't think many of the backup programs will copy certain app data (for instance progress on Candy Crush, but there must be other more important things) so it's worth asking if there is anything on it she can'[t afford to lose, and make sure it's all being run from an account in the product which may back it up, or explicitly back it up somehow.
I tend to keep a list of the apps on my phone (use something like List My Apps, but they sometimes report subroutines or ssl's or whatever you'd call then under Android) - but then I do have 520 apps installed now :-)
PS you used to be able to (and maybe still can) move programs to the SD card. But that was when the whole phone only had 12gb internal storage (e.g. my Xperias). As you know, the answer is to find the issue and fix it, not just paper over it.
Last edited by: smokie on Wed 30 Jun 21 at 18:35
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