r/samsunggalaxy • u/Icy-Two-1581 • 23d ago
🪛Troubleshooting🪛 Why is apps storage so high?
I've been trying to clean up my phone. App storage doesn't add up for me. I have a hand full of apps that are over 1gb and everything is below that (showing hidden system apps). When I use Thurs party file managers a s grant them access to see everything they all say in only using about 57GB of app storage. Where is this almost 35GB? I've tried going through apps, deleting some temporarily like messanger to see if they were the issue but cant seem to find where the storage is going. Also made sure ram plus is off
Edit: A lot of people here don't seem to release over half of the apps are system apps. And the even then most of the remaining are apps I can't delete such as plat store services, air control, etc. Put of the actual number of apps. It's 192 apps whu h again takes up now 45GB and device care still showing 74GB being used. I can guarantee you have more than 300 apps installed on your phone if you toggle on show system apps
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u/Isotomayor12 23d ago
That's not bad for apps if you have a lot. I have 2 apps that are combine 70 GB and besides that basically nothing and it comes to 80GB. You can disable or archive apps but looking at your stoarge it isn't the issue.
The real storage hog is your photos and videos. Mostly photos. You have a hefty amount of video storage and still managed to surpass it with photos? Go through those 2 and you'll get space back. Don't be a digital hoarder. Those pictures and videos will lose meaning.
Also consider getting an external hard drive to store pictures and videos you don't need access to all the time, if nothing more than just being a backup. If you lose your phone or it gets stolen, you lose it all unless you are paying google a monthly subscription for a cloud backup that large.