Will my pics & music stay on my phone if I clear my cache?

[Canji_Marie33]

If I delete my cache a will my pics and music be deleted? I have 2.5 6 GB of just cache a not cached data. I do not want to lose anything. I've never had to worry about this before but this is a lot of sensitive material in the form of GB to risk losing.

 

[Niv77]

If I delete my cache a will my pics and music be deleted? I have 2.5 6 GB of just cache a not cached data. I do not want to lose anything. I've never had to worry about this before but this is a lot of sensitive material in the form of GB to risk losing.

No darling it will not. As long as it's just cache, you're safe.

 

[Golfdriver97]

Welcome to the forums. Clearing the cache should be fine. What reason do you have to clear the cache?

 

[vasekvi]

You're safe to for it

 

[smvim]

App caches are all just temporary and non-vital data that an app relies upon when running, nothing as far as your data files (photos or music) are kept in the app's cache. But your apps do need their caches so when you delete them, the next time you use an app it will need to rebuild its missing cache. As an example, if you have the Google Photos app on your device once you wipe its cache, your photos are not affected, they'll all still be on your device. But the next time you use Google Photos it will need to rebuild its cache, so while its re-indexing your photo library it might lag a bit as far as displaying everything (those little thumbnail images). The same goes for whatever media player you use, your music files remain as is but if there's a lot of album art involved the app's cache needs to be re-indexed and restored.

Generally you don't need to wipe all the app caches, but if you're having a specific problem with an app, wiping its cache is often one the first things to try and fix things. But if you do opt to wipe them all at once, this won't affect your saved files. Just keep in mind that once you do, with at least some apps there will be a initial pause as they rebuild their cache.

 

[GSDer]

this is a lot of sensitive material in the form of GB to risk losing.

If you're worried about losing your pictures and music now would be a good time to take steps to ensure that doesn't happen.

To be sure that your pictures are safe you can use something like Google Photos https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...com.google.android.apps.photos&token=nzRNmtwW - this will store 'High quality' (not necessarily original resolution) copies of your pictures in the cloud.
Or there are apps that you can use to backup your pictures to services like Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.

You can do a similar thing with your music files, and of course you should keep a backup on your regular computer just in case.

 

[flyingkytez]

If I delete my cache a will my pics and music be deleted? I have 2.5 6 GB of just cache a not cached data. I do not want to lose anything. I've never had to worry about this before but this is a lot of sensitive material in the form of GB to risk losing.

No I clear the cache all the time, it doesn't delete sensitive data like photos. However, always back up your photos and files every chance you get, you'll never know what could happen.