To maintain optimal phone performance, consider these proactive measures:
1. Reboot your phone weekly.
2. Regularly clear the cache of frequently used applications.
3. After each software update (Samsung or Google Play System), wipe cache partition.
4. Back up your device regularly, using Smart Switch on your computer or a thumb drive. Weekly backups are recommended to safeguard photos, documents, and text messages (especially important with Google Messages, which lacks a trash feature for accidentally deleted messages and attachments).
System maintenance is crucial for ensuring smooth phone operation, much like with a computer. After all your phone is a pocket computer!
Good advice, @Robin621k , the technology age is no longer in it's infancy. I have a lot of trouble these days mustering sympathy for those that complain they lost their valuable data/photos/messages because they neglected to back things up, as if electronic devices were never going to fail. Back in the early days, backing up daily was a must, as you never knew when a floppy disk was going to get damaged, or you'd get the BSOD on a windows computer. When cell phones first appeared on the scene, they contained no data, but keeping your contacts and being able to transfer them from phone to phone when you got a new one was the big issue. Tech has come a long way and people became so complacent, because tech has become more stable, they just expect everything to always work and, sadly, that is not the case. You only need to lose something precious or important once to realize the importance of backup.
Nor have I. As I said, backup is second nature to me; it's just part of my routine. And the phones (and computers) make it so easy these days with automatic backup, I don't even understand why people turn that off, especially if they don't have a secondary backup plan.
Laziness may be part of it, but I honestly think it just does not occur to most people these days since people just expect tech to work. Many of them weren't around yet in the early days.
