Files by Google
4.6star
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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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Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
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
Independent security review
Ratings and reviews
4.6
7.76M reviews
James Speakman
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May 27, 2024
As of yesterday, Files by Google is not functioning properly on my android. I tap on any category and nothing comes up. From the options menu, where it displays "Clean", it still shows my storage capacity, but it never opens to show all the sub-categories, just a continuous circling. I think it might have something to do with the latest Google Photos update, as these 2 apps are connected and work in tandem. It's so frustrating that I can't even see any screenshots, videos, pics, etc on my phone!
32 people found this review helpful
Lin Kuei Dragon
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May 26, 2024
This app is fine, but there are some minor issues including high quality videos and photos, and sometimes certain file types, just appearing black and sometimes folders can be hard to find. Also sometimes audio will not play and shuffle until it finds a file that will play. I thought those problems were just from the phone I had before, but I got a new and updated phone and it still has those problems.
105 people found this review helpful
Lesley Taylor
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May 27, 2024
App can no longer see any files. It can see them enough to show a thumbnail of them in the preview up top, but if you hit a tab, say downloads, it's empty. All tabs/folders are empty, I can't access a single file now and had to start using a different app from the store called File Manager. File Manager App shows all my files and I'm able to access them all.
20 people found this review helpful
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.
