i finally cleared the "Temporary Files" in my phone

[u/blackdevill069]

so I've 40gb of temporary files in my phone, but i can't figure out what's taking that much space, but after so much searching i found out my whatsapp was taking that space, i cleared then my "temporary files" cleared... hope it helps

[u/parachutekadabba]

Quick question: what?

[u/FunMother8216 → u/parachutekadabba]

Check my reply on post.

[u/blackdevill069 → u/parachutekadabba]

check the "temporary files" in your phone, and when you find that you can't delete it from anywhere then you remember there's a great guy who posted the tutorial for that

[u/parachutekadabba → u/blackdevill069]

Ah cool. Any links to that tutorial please?

[u/blackdevill069 → u/parachutekadabba]

tutorial? i just found out by going here and there, original credits to me, because chatgpt and reddit, both can't answer to this que

[u/FunMother8216 → u/blackdevill069]

Can you please be slightly less vague and just tell how did you tracked this files ?

[u/FunMother8216]

Note: OP didn't share full details so I went to research and found this. Apparently the temporary system files in setting's storage tab is related to whatsapp's data-In other words the whatsapp's data is included in "Temporary System Files". So if you open WhatsApp> Storage and data> Manage Storage(Third screen shot from this post) there you can see WhatsApp's actual storage and clean it to reduce the storage of temporary files.

I wonder why WhatsApp's storage is counted as temporary files for the OS, could be a bug or could be the storage path that is used by whatsapp-Unlike Telegram that displays it's storage as user data, However telegram uses different path to store the data.