Files by Google
4.8star
7.95M reviews
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PEGI 3
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About this app
✨ Free up space on your device with cleaning recommendations
🔍 Find files faster with search and simple browsing
↔️ Quickly share files offline with Quick Share
☁️ Back up files to the cloud to save space on your device
🔒 Secure your files with a non-device lock
Free up space
Easily see how much space is left on your device, SD card and USB drive. Free up space by finding old photos from chat apps, duplicate files, clearing cache, and more.
Find files faster
Save time looking for photos, videos, and documents on your phone. Search quickly or browse your GIFs or share that video you downloaded recently. Sort files by size to understand what’s taking up space.
Fast & secure file sharing
Share photos, videos, apps, and more to Android and Chromebook devices around you with Quick Share. Files transfer quickly, with speeds up to 480 Mbps, even without an internet connection. Transfers are private and secured with end-to-end encryption.
Secure your files
Keep your sensitive files safe with a PIN or pattern that can be different from your device lock.
Play offline media
Listen to your music or watch your videos with advanced controls like playback speed, shuffle, and more.
Back up files
Move your files to Google Drive or an SD card to save space on your device. You can also share to other cloud storage apps on your device.
Get smart recommendations
Get helpful suggestions to save space, protect your device, and more. Your recommendations get smarter the more you use the app.
It’s efficient and effective
The Files by Google app uses less than 20 MB of storage on your device, it’s easy to use, and has no ads.
🔍 Find files faster with search and simple browsing
↔️ Quickly share files offline with Quick Share
☁️ Back up files to the cloud to save space on your device
🔒 Secure your files with a non-device lock
Free up space
Easily see how much space is left on your device, SD card and USB drive. Free up space by finding old photos from chat apps, duplicate files, clearing cache, and more.
Find files faster
Save time looking for photos, videos, and documents on your phone. Search quickly or browse your GIFs or share that video you downloaded recently. Sort files by size to understand what’s taking up space.
Fast & secure file sharing
Share photos, videos, apps, and more to Android and Chromebook devices around you with Quick Share. Files transfer quickly, with speeds up to 480 Mbps, even without an internet connection. Transfers are private and secured with end-to-end encryption.
Secure your files
Keep your sensitive files safe with a PIN or pattern that can be different from your device lock.
Play offline media
Listen to your music or watch your videos with advanced controls like playback speed, shuffle, and more.
Back up files
Move your files to Google Drive or an SD card to save space on your device. You can also share to other cloud storage apps on your device.
Get smart recommendations
Get helpful suggestions to save space, protect your device, and more. Your recommendations get smarter the more you use the app.
It’s efficient and effective
The Files by Google app uses less than 20 MB of storage on your device, it’s easy to use, and has no ads.
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No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
App activity, App info and performance, and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted
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Ratings and reviews
4.8
7.72M reviews
Adam Sharpe
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March 27, 2024
Something happened in the recent updates that is draining my phone battery. I lose 10% of my battery on this app every day without even opening it. What happened? Poco F3. Edit: thanks, but It doesn't help anyone to post links here in the Play Store that cannot be clicked upon. 🤷🏼♂️ Edit#2: rebooted the phone and after disabling the auto startup as well, it stopped sucking up power. I don't know which one of these fixed it, but whatever.
135 people found this review helpful
Google LLC
March 14, 2024
Hi Adam. We appreciate your feedback. We suggest you take a look at this article: https://goo.gle/3CxbVMA to learn how to get the most out of battery life on Android. If you still have issues or feature suggestions, please submit your feedback via the three-line menu in the upper left corner. Thanks!
Ashutosh
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April 21, 2024
The progress bar freezes when deleting files from the SD Card. Moving files to a location with existing folders doesn't offer the option to overwrite; instead, it creates new folders with incremented numbers. There's a need for basic 'Move to' or 'Copy to' options for content management. The UI is confusing; there's no sidebar access within 'Internal Storage' or 'SD Card', and no top tab switch when navigating between them.
33 people found this review helpful
Google LLC
April 21, 2024
Hi Ashutosh! Please provide more information about the issue such as steps to replicate, screenshot of the error etc through this form g.co/help/filesbygoogle for us to investigate further. Appreciate your patience!
B A Google User
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April 8, 2024
Please allow various settings for keeping things in trash. Add options to keep things in trash for 24 hours and maybe 10 days. I don't need trash on my phone for 30 days. That is way too long! For videos, add a way to check if the thumbnail is the same to delete duplicates that may be different file sizes but the same video. Also, this app is by Google it should be able to go into the Android folder. Lastly, needs to show how much free space there is instead of just what is used.
472 people found this review helpful
Google LLC
April 9, 2024
Hi there. Please provide more information about the issue such as steps to replicate, screenshot of the error etc through this form g.co/help/filesbygoogle for us to investigate further. Appreciate your patience!
What's new
When you scan a document, it’s saved in your device’s Scanned folder.
“Documents & other” category is now called “Documents” to make it easier to find PDF files. Other files, like backup and database files, can be found in “Downloads” or “Internal storage”.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll roll out search improvements like recently opened files, quick results, and dropdown filters to make finding files even easier.
“Documents & other” category is now called “Documents” to make it easier to find PDF files. Other files, like backup and database files, can be found in “Downloads” or “Internal storage”.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll roll out search improvements like recently opened files, quick results, and dropdown filters to make finding files even easier.
