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Where Reclaim looks
Which folders should I add?
- Camera: the folder named DCIM. It holds photos, videos and usually Screenshots.
- Pictures and Movies: saved images, screen recordings, app exports.
- WhatsApp: Android › media › com.whatsapp › WhatsApp. Telegram sits next to it.
- Documents, Music, Recordings: if you keep large files there.
Android does not let any app open the top of the storage, the Download folder itself or Android › data. For downloads, add the folders inside Download, or use Check loose files and tick the files to look at.
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More ways to free space
Some clean-ups only Android or the app itself can do. Each is a few taps.
How does Reclaim decide what to suggest?
It follows a fixed set of rules, so the same files always get the same answer. Nothing is guessed and nothing leaves your phone.
- Safe to clean are scraps the phone rebuilds or no longer needs: gallery preview pictures, things already in the bin, downloads that never finished, watched statuses.
- Easy to get back are things one download restores or that exist twice: app installers, exact duplicate copies, Telegram downloads, older WhatsApp backups.
- Worth a look are things only you can judge: big videos, old screenshots, forgotten downloads, old chat media. They are never selected for you.
A duplicate is only called one when every byte matches, and one copy always stays. A file that changed after the check is left alone. Anything you mark Hide stays out of the suggestions from then on.
What it cannot see: other apps' private caches (Android keeps those to itself), the Download folder as a whole, and how full the phone is overall. The ring therefore shows how much of what was checked can go.
Care for the phone itself
Clear the speaker, wipe the screen without setting anything off, and test each part of the phone.
Device check-up
What the phone reports about itself, and a test for each part. Nothing is sent anywhere.
What Reclaim may use
Reclaim asks only when you tap, one thing at a time, and says what each is for. You can change your mind in the phone's settings at any time.
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Put Reclaim on the home screen
It opens like an app, works without a connection and can remind you once a month.
Something says “Blocked”. How do I change it?
In Chrome: tap the icon at the left of the address bar, then Permissions. For the installed app: press and hold its icon, then App info › Site settings.
“Not offered here” means this phone or this browser does not have that part, so there is nothing to allow.