Files by Google

Google LLC

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.

Ratings and reviews

THIS should be a native preinstalled app on all android devices. Google Play's app manager don't find even close to what this app does. Granted, you are still stuck with some bloatware apps. This can uninstall a lot the junk the phones app manager will not even give you the option to do so. I got rid of 85% of the bloat I wanted gone. Good app, wish I had it sooner. I like to get at least close to 2 years out of a phone if possible. And, storage management is a big part of that maintenance.

Please revert the clean option back to the way it was. I cannot see exactly what files are junk anymore. You touch "see files" and it doesn't do anything now. I want to see the files before it deletes them. For example,Jeopardy+Doordash always leave junk.There isn't an option to attach a screenshot for this review. You open Files by Google app, go to menu, tap clean and then an option to "see files" is in the popup box in blue and when you touch that it shows you the files it is going to clean.

This used to be a fairly decent file manager. It was, and still is, always able to find files on my device that the pre-installed file manager doesn't show, thus allowing me to create more storage space. The last update, however, has left it slow to the point where it is completely unusable. I can download a file and it takes minutes before it shows up. Even just opening the app it takes forever for files to appear. This seems to be a trend with a lot of Google apps lately.

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.