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AVG Cleaner for Android — Getting Started

Applies to: AVG Cleaner for Android

AVG Cleaner for Android is a mobile app designed to help improve the performance of your device and preserve storage space by removing unnecessary media, files, apps, and app data. Remove these items by transferring them to a cloud storage account and/or deleting them from your device. You can also optimize photos to consume less space.

Note: This article assumes that the latest version of AVG Cleaner is installed and activated on your Android device.

Navigate AVG Cleaner

1. On the Home screen of your device, tap the AVG Cleaner icon to open the app.

2. The following options are available via the main app screen:

   • Quick Clean: Scan for and delete dispensable items, including thumbnails, APKs, residual files, and hidden, visible, and shared cache.

   • Sleep Mode: Hibernate apps that are running in the background, stopping them from slowing down your device and draining your battery.

   • Tips: Review tips for clearing space on your device.

   • Media: Access an overview of the media stored on your device, including suggestions for clearing space.

   • Apps: Access an overview of the apps installed on your device, including suggestions for clearing space.

Perform a Quick Clean

Quick Clean cleans your device by removing unnecessary files to free storage space. You can select which item types are removed before you clean.

1. Tap the Quick Clean button.

2. Tick the item types you want to clean. Item types are divided into two sections:

   • Unneeded files: Data that has been carefully selected to ensure that it is truly dispensable, including thumbnails, APKs, residual files, and hidden, visible, and shared cache.

   • Files to review: Data that may not be valuable to you. We recommend reviewing items included in this group and only ticking items that are dispensable. All items are unticked by default.

3. Tap Finish cleaning to delete the selected items.

Hibernate Apps

The Sleep Mode feature stops apps from running in the background, releasing memory for other tasks.

1. Tap the Sleep Mode tile.

2. Tick the apps that you want to stop, then tap Force stop.

3. Tap Proceed.

4. Wait while AVG Cleaner hibernates the selected apps, then tap the back arrow to return to the main screen.

Optimize Your Photos

1. Tap Menu (three lines) in the top-left corner of the main app screen.

2. Go to Photo Optimizer ▸ Show photos.

3. Photos are arranged in groups according to age. Tick the photo(s) you want to optimize, or tap Select all next to a group to select the whole group.

4. Tap the Confirm button at the bottom of the screen.

5. Tap Continue to proceed with default optimization, or tap Setup to preview an optimized image.

6. Under Original photos, tap Select to specify what will happen to your original photo(s): send originals to cloud storage, just delete, or keep originals.

7. Tap Optimize now to immediately start optimizing the selected photo(s).

8. When optimization is complete, tap the back arrow to return to the main screen.

Manage Cloud Transfers

1. Tap Menu (three lines) in the top-left corner of the main app screen.

2. Go to Settings ▸ Cloud services.

3. Tap Connect next to your chosen cloud service (Dropbox or Google Drive).

4. Select your preferred account and tap OK. Enter login credentials if prompted.

5. The account now appears under Connected. To sign out, tap More options (three dots) next to the account and select Sign out.

You can be connected to multiple Google Drive accounts and one Dropbox account at the same time. If you are connected to multiple accounts simultaneously, you are prompted to choose an account each time you attempt to transfer data to cloud storage.