What’s the Difference Between Cache and Temporary Files?
Even when you close your applications, background files are still slowing your phone down. Find out what they are and how to get rid of them.
Ever wonder why your Android is still slow, even after you close all of your apps? While closing the apps that are running in the background of your phone does prevent extra battery drainage, doing so does not significantly increase the speed of your phone. When you close your apps, the temporary files that are created are often deleted, but not the cache files. Deleting your cache files also contributes to the speed of your phone, not just temporary files. Click here to use the quick cleaner feature in dfndr performance to remove these useless files:
There are many ways to get rid of the outdated cache files and increase the speed of your phone. You could always go into your Android’s settings and manually delete the cache files of your apps, one by one, or you can use quick cleanup to delete outdated temporary and cache files, trash, and junk files.
Read More: Which Apps Slow Down Your Smartphone the Most?
Temporary Files vs. Cache Files
Temporary files are exactly what they seem: short-term files that run in the background. For example, when you hit “back” in an Internet browser, a temporary file remembers which page you were at before. Hitting “undo” on your keyboard also uses temporary files. However, once you close the application, the temporary files are not relevant anymore and are promptly deleted. They do not take up much space, to begin with, so the processor speed does not change much.
Cache files are more embedded in your Android’s hard drive. A cache, by practical definition, is a container used to store and preserve essential items; a cache file is a digital version. When an app needs to back up information for a long-term purpose, like file recovery, they store the information in a cache file for a later date.
However, when an app continually does this, the cache files bog down the speed of your Android, no matter how outdated the cache files. Cache files are like that one drawer you keep everything in; you think you will need something another day, and sometimes you do, but when the drawer becomes full, the items at the bottom get buried. After a few weeks of storing, you cannot even close the drawer.
Now that you know the difference between cache files and temporary Files, you know how to delete your outdated junk files to make your Android work like it is brand new.