Handy Andy's Digital Spring Cleaning Checklist

Just like your home, your digital life can become cluttered. Here's your Handy Andy Digital Spring-Cleaning Checklist:

1. Start with your mobile device.

1. Delete unused apps. 

2. Clear photos and videos off your phone. There are 2 ways:

1. Use free cloud storage (i.e. iCloud, Google Photos)

2. Move files to your PC

3. Handy Tip for iPhone users : Sandisk iXpand Flash drive

2. Setup smartphone monitoring tools do spend less time on your phone

1. Digital Wellbeing for Android

2. Screen time for iPhone

3. Clean your laptop

• Organize your desktop, uninstall unused programs, and start-up programs

• Clear your download folder, remove large files 

• Clear temporary files in your browser 

4. Clean up your Cloud Storage

Sort through and find your largest files. Move them off cloud storage to free-up space…. To avoid paying annual cloud subscription fees, consider building your own cloud at home. 

Handy tip - Create your own cloud using a NAS - network attached storage and move files off free cloud storage to your cloud storage