These Two Popular Apps Can Spend Dozens Of GBs On Your Windows Storage

Spotify and WhatsApp can use Windows storage (photo: dock. unsplash)

JAKARTA There are many third-party applications that you can download on your Windows PC. Although it seems light, there are two applications that have the potential to spend storage space.

These two applications are Spotify and WhatsApp. Both look light because users use both applications for simple needs, namely listening to music and exchanging messages. However, both have the same storage problem.

Spotify

Spotify is a streaming app so this platform should be more practical in terms of storage, but the reality is different. Although the main application is small, Spotify can collect a lot of cached data over time.

Every song that is played, a playlist that is traced, and the album cover you see will add to the pile of files stored behind the scenes. Although this cache helps load music faster, the number can swell to several gigabytes.

The personal cache of this application can even reach 10GB or even more. This amount of storage does not include offline downloads. The best solution to avoid cache buildup is to clean cache regularly from the Settings menu.

WhatsApp

For users who rely on WhatsApp on PC, this application offers an experience that is very similar to the mobile version. However, every photo, video, document, or voice note received is stored locally on the computer.

These downloaded files do not appear in the standard Downloads folder so they are often missed during manual cleaning. This media download volume can increase rapidly so that it can spend a lot of storage space.