The particular way that the Android and Google operating system has of accounting for storage on our mobile phone, and it is not how you expect.
There are things that go unnoticed by consumers, but that many developers have had in mind for several years, and one of these flaws that Google has not yet solved is that its operating system Android They do not correctly calculate device storage utilization.
Now we have more storage in all our phones, basically because the requirements for new versions of Android have increased, so manufacturers are increasingly selling terminals with greater storage capacities.
The user can have a certain idea of the storage that their mobile device has occupied by basically accessing settings, but it is likely that what they are seeing in the data is not entirely correct.
The developer Mishaal Rahmanhas pointed out that the calculation of Google of space consumed by Android 14 system components is incorrect.
As he comments, Android calculates system storage as the space used by anything that doesn’t fall into other categories in the storage breakdown.
And it seems that this particular way of accounting for storage by the operating system is not entirely accurate, and has been repeated in the latest versions of Android. However, Samsung already realized this and fixed it in the One UI 6.0 update.
And there is something else
But there is another small error, and that is that the developer has detected that although phone manufacturers talk about storage capacity in gigabytes, Android measures storage in gibibytesthat is, the equivalence would be 1 gigabyte (GB) is equivalent to 0.93 gibibytes (GiB).
This means that there is a difference in units, so the user may believe that the operating system occupies a different amount than the user considers.
So combining both problems, you think Google should update the logic of Android 14 to calculate the storage used by system components.