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Cleaner apps: Useless, risky and a waste of your time – The Star Online
Cleaner apps promise to free up space and speed up your Android smartphone – except most of them are a waste of time.
Cleaner apps promise to free up space and speed up your Android smartphone except most of them are a waste of time.
It might be satisfying to tap a button that says “optimize”, but consumer watchdogs say there’s no need to install any of the many apps on the Google Play Store claiming to clean up or optimize your phone’s operating system.
This is because most of their “cleaning” techniques come from the world of PCs, and do not apply to Android. Instead of speeding up a phone, these system opt…
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