Is your phone's storage space sufficient? Recently, mobile phone storage anxiety has caused heated discussion, and netizens have complained that the APP takes up a lot of space. Why is software becoming more and more bloated? How to save mobile phone storage?
Organized/New Media Editor Duan David
"When the storage space is only about 10%, some APPs will have prompts, and the program will also crash. It is impossible not to worry about anxiety." Recently, the topic of mobile storage anxiety has been on the hot search for Weibo , and many netizens have encountered this situation. "The 128GB mobile phone has been used for a few months and the space is full. It is very painful to use it while cleaning the space." Some netizens said. Why is there always insufficient storage space? What changes have occurred in the APP installation package? How can we save mobile phone storage?
"big application operators" who are not full of storage space
combined with actual applications, many netizens reported that WeChat chat records are large users occupying mobile phone storage space, even reaching more than 100GB. WeChat space occupies a large amount of chat voice, video, and image files are saved in WeChat (the video and image files are partially supported for previewing in the album), and a certain amount of cache will be generated after browsing the functions of Moments and mini-programs, which will occupy huge space as time goes by. In addition, some games on mobile phones are often over 10GB.
WeChat founder Zhang Xiaolong once described WeChat as a "small and beautiful" APP. In 2011, when WeChat 1.0 was only 457KB in Android APK installation package. In 2014, the WeChat installation package was less than 25MB. By 2022, the WeChat installation package was 257MB, which is equivalent to a 575-fold expansion in 2011.
In the past 11 years, WeChat has mainly added these functions:
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It can be seen that from 2011 to 2015, WeChat's main development and improvement revolves around social interaction, and the most core is chat functions: WeChat groups, emoticons, voice, shake, etc. Later, payment, payment, payment, video, video number and other functions were gradually added. There are also some controversial functions, such as: withdrawing chat messages, taking a shot...
With the update of WeChat version, the payment function turns it into a "mobile wallet", the video account turns it into "another Douyin ", and the mini program makes it a collection of N small games and commonly used APPs...
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bilibiliUP master technology old boy has used the reverse engineering WeChat installation package and found that in the WeChat version 1.0, it realized the core function - chat - with only 199 files. In July 8.0.24, 2022, there are 12,639 files, and all codes have soared by more than 500 times.
In other words, most files and codes are used to implement other functions: videos, games, taxi rides, takeout, express delivery... Nowadays, if you want to do anything with your mobile phone, you don’t have to download a corresponding APP. If you want to buy groceries, you don’t need to download apps like Hema, Meituan , and Dingdong Maicai . You can directly enter from the WeChat mini program or the Alipay interface.
This reduces the trouble of downloading another APP to a certain extent, but the problem is that although WeChat limits the size of the applet (2MB), it does not solve the cache that will be generated as long as the applet is started.
In addition, for those who cannot give up on WeChat’s social functions but do not need functions such as mini programs and video accounts, WeChat’s “update and iteration” is a burden on the mobile phone space.
is not just WeChat, but in the comment section, people complain that almost all mobile APP installation packages have become larger and occupied memory in recent years.
In the Android application store, the size of the installation package displayed is the compressed file package size. If you really download the APP to your mobile phone, there will be a process of decompression. In addition, many APPs will automatically write default information during the download process. This means that more space is needed in the mobile phone than the APP installation package to successfully download.
Usually, an APP takes up 1.5 to 3 times the size of its installation package. Taking WeChat as an example, the WeChat installation package size is 230MB in the application mall, but after decompression, it becomes more than 500MB.
is calculated based on the footprint = installation package size * 2.5. It takes about 17.6G to put these 50 commonly used APPs, which does not include the various caches brought by using APPs.
From "small but different" to "large but similar"
APP installation package becomes larger, which means updates and iterations of functions and optimization of experience. But are these additions and optimizations really needed for users? Many APPs with rapidly growing installation packages actually come from leading Internet manufacturers, or are controlled by them: Tencent includes WeChat, QQ, Honor of Kings, QQ Music ... Alibaba has Taobao, Alipay, DingTalk , UC browser ... ByteDance has Douyin, Toutiao...
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On the one hand, this is due to the rapid development of technology and the normal iteration of functions; on the other hand, the APP is constantly updated and revised, becoming larger and more complete, and a large part of the reason is the grabbing and retention of users.
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So you can see that Douyin, which focuses on short videos, and Xiaohongshu, which is famous for planting grass, have group chat functions; the music software QQ music has a "play-a-bang" game; the shopping software Pinduoduo, originally had a "recommended" entrance at the bottom, but at the beginning of this year it became "Duoduo Video"...
Perhaps as netizens said: "One day you will be There is not enough space for your mobile phone, so you can only delete some APPs, but the first thing you need to delete is definitely not a software like WeChat. For example, there is a video account in WeChat, and you might uninstall Douyin. For example, your Meituan has an entrance to buy groceries, buy movie tickets, scan shared bicycles, and take a taxi. You can also uninstall APPs such as Hema and Didi ..."
To clean the mobile phone memory, you need to "prescribe the right medicine"
How to clean the mobile phone storage? First of all, you must have a good usage habit, regularly organize photos and videos, and export them to PC or other storage media; in addition, some social chat records, APP records data, etc. can be optionally deleted.
However, be careful when cleaning content or storage space. "I cleaned the software contents of the mobile phone and deleted the important files by accident." "I cleaned up the chat history, and I can't tell the truth when chatting again, and things are wrong." After accidentally cleaning the data, these embarrassments happen from time to time.
You should carefully choose cleaning tools. Some so-called memory cleaning software will become more stuttering the more you clean it. According to media reports, some illegal APPs are under the guise of cleaning up memory, which is actually to allow users to click on pop-up ads and divert traffic to download other APPs. The more they clean up and download the more APPs they download, the greater the storage space they take up.
can actually clean the mobile phone memory manually. Here are some good ways to clean the mobile phone memory, without restoring the manufacturer's settings, allowing the mobile phone to release a large amount of memory.
1. Correctly uninstall APP
Take the IOS system mobile phone as an example (Android system can operate according to different models of mobile phones, and the principles are similar). Many people uninstall APPs by pressing the APP directly on the desktop of the mobile phone for a few seconds, then clicking "Remove APP", and then clicking "Delete APP" and then "Delete APP". In fact, this is not uninstalling cleanly! Residual data cannot be cleaned.
Correct uninstall method:
Open the phone, click [Settings]-[General]-[iPhone Storage Space] in turn, find the APP you want to uninstall, click and select [Delete App], so that the relevant data that comes with is cleaned.
2. Clear the browser record
When using the browser, some browsing records and data will be saved on the mobile phone. Over time, it will take up a lot of memory on your phone, so you need to clean your browser records regularly.
Cleaning method:
Take the IOS system mobile phone as an example. Open the phone and click [Settings] - [Safari Browser] - [Clear history and website data]
3. Close WeChat and automatically download
You have to use WeChat every day. In fact, WeChat occupies a lot of memory. The photos and videos you viewed on weekdays will be automatically saved to your phone regardless of whether you need it or not. Therefore, you can selectively turn off this function according to the following method.
Close method:
Open WeChat, click [Settings]-[General]-[Photo, Video, File and Call] in turn, and finally close [Automatic Download, Photo, Video].
4. Clean the WeChat cache
After using WeChat for a long time, many files that cannot be used will be generated, so you can appropriately clean the WeChat cache.
Cleaning method:
Open WeChat, click [Settings]-[General]-[Storage Space] in turn, the memory occupied by WeChat will be displayed here, and then click [Cache] to clean it. Cache is useless data and can be cleaned.
Of course, you can also selectively clean up some chat records.
(reference source: CCTV.com, China News Network, China News Network, China News, DT Finance, bilibiliUP master technology old boy, etc.)
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Producer: Beijing Science and Technology News | Beike Media
