Smartphones are much like our homes - they get filled with clutter in a matter of weeks. Contacts, documents, photos, apps, games, and other stuff can pile up and clog your memory, leaving you to suffer the resulting lag in your device's performance. It's high time that you take full control of your phone, clean everything up, and declutter. You will achieve the best results if you start off with old contacts, emails, and text messages. You'd be surprised how much they can take up, especially if they come with massive attachments.

The next step should be taking care of your phone's security. Every time you do a deep cleanse, you are at risk of losing a few passwords. This can be most inconvenient and is best avoided. In order to make sure such a scenario never happens, an app that allows you to manage and organize all your info should become a top priority. 1Password works on Android and iPhone - and is known as a safe and secure option. It will allow you to keep everything under control and save quite a bit of time too.

Perhaps the biggest offenders in this story are your photos. We snap them throughout the day without even thinking about how much space they take up on our comparatively tiny memory cards. Before you know it, 64 GB are full of images you may or may not even need. Deleting duplicates, sorting the rest into categories, and only keeping what you genuinely need is imperative - regardless of whether you're simply going for a minimalist aesthetic or want to make your system a lot more efficient and productive.