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How to Clear TikTok Cache & Free Up Storage

How to Clear TikTok Cache & Free Up Storage

TikTok stores watched videos as cache, and on this phone it had grown to 422 MB. You don’t need to open TikTok to clear it: Android lets you wipe an app’s cache from the phone’s own Settings. This film walks the phone-settings route - Settings, Apps, TikTok, Storage, Clear cache - and the cache drops to 0 B on camera while the app and its data stay untouched.

✅ Tested on
  • SystemAndroid
  • AppTikTok
  • Last verifiedNovember 10, 2026

Every screenshot below is taken from the actual recording on this device — no stock images.

Steps

Open Settings

Tap the Settings gear icon on your home screen or app drawer.

Open Settings

Scroll down and tap Apps

Scroll down in Settings, then tap Apps.

Scroll down and tap Apps

Find and tap TikTok

Scroll down the app list to TikTok and tap it. If you don’t see it, use the search icon at the top right, as the narrator suggests.

Find and tap TikTok

Tap Storage

On the TikTok App info screen, tap Storage. It reads 2.59 GB used in Internal storage.

Tap Storage

Tap Clear cache

Tap Clear cache at the bottom right. The cache reads 422 MB here; the app itself is 774 MB and its data is 1.40 GB.

Tap Clear cache

Check the cache is cleared

Cache now reads 0 B and the total drops from 2.59 GB to 2.17 GB. The app and data figures are unchanged - only the cache is gone.

Check the cache is cleared

Good to know

  1. This film clears the cache through the phone’s Settings, without opening TikTok at all. TikTok also has its own in-app clear-cache button under Settings and privacy, Free up space - that route is covered in our ‘Fix Error 2433 on TikTok’ guide, which taps Clear inside the app.
  2. The cache clear is shown working: the cache drops from 422 MB to 0 B and the total from 2.59 GB to 2.17 GB.
  3. Clearing the cache does not log you out or delete anything you saved: the App (774 MB) and Data (1.40 GB) figures are identical before and after the tap.
  4. The film’s TikTok version is 43.1.4, shown on the Storage screen; the phone is a Samsung on Android.
  5. If TikTok is not visible in the Apps list, the narrator suggests using the search icon at the top right of the Apps screen.
  6. The film never opens TikTok itself, so no account, profile or video appears on camera.

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