Cleaner Apps on Android 7+ - Useful, Useless, or Potentially Harmful?

[jazee]

Google Software Engineers have made improvements to the operating system over time to the point I believe the necessity and usefulness of these utilities is questionable especially if you are on Android 7 or later. Many people post their experiences with these apps without acknowledging their operating system version which could be significantly different than many other users.

This article "Android Apps You Should Remove Immediately" on Adroid Pit (you can Google it) recommends you get rid of these types of apps.

But there are lots of other articles, forum posts, article comments (mostly older) that swear by these apps.

Maybe out of the dozens of functions in these apps there's one or two useful ones on Android 7 (although my LG G6 already comes with a Smart Cleaner app)

Are the majority of Android 7 users using these apps basically blindly using them because they feel good to use and aren't actually getting the significant benefit they think they are getting? Could many of them, especially the ones that may "try to do too much" actually be hampering your Android 7+ phone more than helping it?

 

[TheFixItMan]

The only app I would recommend is ccleaner
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.piriform.ccleaner&hl=en_GB

It does the following
clears all apps caches which could save alot of storage space - especially good if you have apps that store alot of cache files like twitter for loading images faster but since in most cases you only look at the image once you really dont need it cache it to load up quicker

It can also do the following if you ask it to

Deletes downloaded files/apks in one click
Deletes call logs
Deletes empty folders
Deletes browser history, clipboard content

And can also
Check the usage of your CPU
Keep track of your RAM and internal storage space
Check out your battery levels and temperature

Any other app which claims to "optimize" the phone probably does nothing unless it does the same job as ccleaner but in my opinion this is the easiest most trusted app to use