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Recently, a topic of #Why is the mobile app becoming more and more popular# has become a hot search, causing discussion among many netizens. "A 128GB mobile phone will be full in a short time," "The mobile phone can only be used while cleaning the space, which is very unhappy", "The mobile phone is not enough, and some apps will keep prompting, and some will even flash back and cannot be used even if you want to." These complaints about mobile phone space are expressing the voices of users.
Why are mobile APP applications getting bigger and bigger? What to save our mobile phone memory?
There is really not enough memory for mobile phones?
With the development of the smartphone industry, the hardware and performance of mobile phones are also constantly upgrading, and mobile phone software developers naturally also want to "eat" this part of the improved performance. With smoother user experience, more application functions, and more fancy animation effects, the mobile phone software is easy to use, but the application volume has increased. They not only "eat" the performance of the phone, but also "eat" the memory of the phone.
For example, the "WeChat" that modern people are basically inseparable is a good example. The topic "WeChat installation package has expanded by 575 times in 11 years" that hit the hot search some time ago clearly shows the expansion of mobile phone application volume in recent years. What is predictable for is that the size of mobile phone applications will become larger and larger, and our mobile phone memory will indeed become less and less than enough.
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is becoming increasingly bloated applications and junk files
What is more difficult to accept is that the expansion of mobile application volume does not necessarily bring a better user experience. takes WeChat as an example. From the original 457KB to the 257MB version of Android 8.0.24, it has expanded by 575 times. 99.9% of the 257MB files are garbage functions and resources, such as mini programs, games, shopping, etc., many of them are non-essential functions of ours, and the core chat function of WeChat may only account for 0.1% of the space.
In this domestic application environment, software developers hope that you can do everything in one application in his home. In addition to chatting, WeChat and QQ chat software will also add a bunch of features that you cannot use. For example, in many e-commerce software, in addition to shopping, you can also create virtual images, plant trees and grow flowers, and even fight for landlords. You may not be able to use the extra functions of at all, but they will take up your phone's memory, and even the memory will be affected, making your phone more and more stuck.
In addition, these applications will leave a lot of useless data on your phone. is like WeChat, which can occupy more than ten or even dozens of GB of storage space at any time. In addition to the pictures and files you save yourself, most of them are useless and duplicate junk files.
For example, if you open a WeChat applet, a cache file will be generated, but you may not use this applet again, but WeChat will not help you delete the junk files generated by this applet; when you forward the file with WeChat, even if it is the same file, as long as you forward it to a person or a group, WeChat will re-copy an exact same file, forward one to generate one, and these are useless duplicate files.
memory is not enough, so there is no way to save some photos, files, etc., let alone download some new applications. In addition, both memory and memory are taken up, which will also make your phone card and experience a comprehensive decline. For ordinary consumers, apart from adding more money to buy a larger version of the phone, it seems that they can only use it while clearing the memory.
But in fact, not only are our users unhappy, but mobile phone manufacturers actually don’t want to see it. So what efforts have they made for this?
What have mobile phone manufacturers done?
data upload to the cloud:
In order to help users save mobile phone memory space, manufacturers have actually tried many methods, such as cloud storage technology is one of the solutions.For example, Apple 's iCloud cloud service is one of the best. Users can store their personal data in the private cloud space provided by Apple. Your music, photos, applications, calendars, documents and other content can be uploaded. Uploading documents to the cloud can save a lot of local space.
and iCloud can also be shared between users' different devices. Your iPhone, iPad and even Mac can use the document data on iCloud. This service that can save local space and enhance the experience of cross-end devices is naturally happy to follow up. Such services as Huawei Cloud Space, Xiaomi cloud service, OPPO Cloud, etc. can help users manage their own data.
Compress local files:
However, not all data can be uploaded to the cloud. At this time, compressing files that cannot be uploaded locally is also a solution. For example, the hyperspace storage compression technology of Huawei can optimize and compress duplicate files and infrequently used applications based on the file system level. For example, pictures, documents, compressed packages, and videos repeatedly saved on mobile APP can be deleted through this technology without affecting the normal use of the application.
directly add memory:
does not have enough memory, adding memory is one of the simplest, crude but also most useful ways. Like the 1TB memory versions that some high-end models have in recent years, such as the iPhone 14 Pro Max, Samsung S22 Ultra, the space is naturally more sufficient. In terms of memory, there are also large memory phones like OnePlus Ace Pro to choose from. It can be said that if you think 8+128GB is not enough, there are also large memory phones available on the market for you to choose from.
(OnePlus Ace Pro)
Conclusion
Application APP is becoming larger and larger, and it is not the illusion of users. Fortunately, mobile phone manufacturers have provided many solutions for users, and it is enough for users to save some space on their own. There is also a choice to buy a large storage mobile phone for easy use.
So how big is your phone storage? Is it enough now?
