What is up with my laptop and my phone saying they're almost out of storage?

My phone was saying that I was running out of storage for about a year. I was deleting photos from it, and files and documents, texts, videos, constantly. T sometimes didn’t let me take photos. It got very annoying but i tried to deal with it. The final problem was the charger port no longer worked, so it wouldn’t charge. I bought a new phone for 250 from Best Buy. I asked a question about it here on fluther. I’m very happy with the phone and not having to deal with the problems.

Delete some photos and videos to make more space. You can see in setting how much space you have used and how much space is available. If it is both your phone and laptop saying it simultaneously I am assuming it is your cloud that is filing up and not your actual storage for your phone and laptop. Once you know which storage is full then you will know for sure what to delete. You can also delete emails and messages, documents, but videos and photos take up the most space usually.

Yeah, if you have some “cloud” storage deal (like Apple tries to get its users to use), they try to automatically stuff it with most of your files, which if you’re taking pictures (and especially videos) with your high-res iPhone, will tend to fill up. Then you get to try to see what it’s doing and manage it (e.g. you could move pictures/videos you want to a larger storage and/or backup device you own yourself), OR you can pay Apple rent to store more on their “cloud”. (Apple: “Muahahahaha! [k’ching!]”)

Similar “deals” can happen on PCs, too.

Thing is it’s not even 6 months old and I don’t take 1/8 th of the pictures or videos I used to.
It’s an Android BTW.

Dutchess samsung has cloud storage too. Im guessing most phone manufacturers do because it’s a money maker.

Try deleting texts, photos and videos and see if it’s better. You’ll see that when you text photos to people, you have the original one and then it’s in text, so deleting texts will still keep the original photo. Also delete apps you don’t use.

I know they have clouds. I just opt not to use them.

I’ll try deleting but I don’t have near the data that I had on my last phone. It never did that to me.
I find that I’m getting the same BS on my laptop.
Rick is getting the same notifications on his new phone.

Clear your search history, clear your cache, dump unnecessary pictures/files, check all your apps to see which are using memory or are basically running all the time. Close these and/or change the settings so they don’t keep running.

If it’s a Samsung phone, to my surprise, they actually had relatively competent human tech support, at least in my limited experience.

But it IS very strange both you and your husband are getting the same thing on computers and phones, especially assuming you have different accounts.

I’m curious what the exact error message is and what it’s coming from in each case.

It’s not an error message. It’s just a notice that I’m 95% full.

My wife runs into this all the time and then gives me her phone to see if I can figure it out. She has 20 or 30 web pages/apps running. She minimized them but didn’t close them. I go through and X out of everything, go through and dump all the cookies and crap files they leave on the phone, empty her search histories, etc. and she is good for another few months until she gets back into the same old habits.