What's on my phone storage?

I don't know why do I think this makes for an interesting post at all but whatever, what is in *your* phone storage?

A few years ago, I wrote about what’s on my phone. Today, after a single chat with R.L. Dane talking about how he doesn’t want his Signal backups to be more than 1.5 GB, I checked the size of my Signal storage use, and realized it’s more than 2.5 GB. From there, I decided to take a look at how much space is taken over in my phone, and by what apps or files… and what does that say about me as a person?

To get the specific storage usage by folder, I used Solid Explorer, which has a pretty simple setting to view it at a glance. The rest I got from Android’s app settings section.

For obvious privacy reasons—and lazyness to be honest—I won’t be too specific about everything, but I’ll share what isn’t that big of a deal.

My current phone has 128 GB of built-in memory, I remember back then how I was happy with my Redmi 5A’s 32 GB, and 16 GB MicroSD card sometimes. Oh how the times have changed…

Anyway, the Internal storage I have access to, consists of 105 GB, and I have 7.37 GB left for now.

Folders by size

Apps by size

I have plenty of folders, but I still think most of my storage is being used by apps with a lot of internal data on them, so here are the top 10 just for fun. I’ll leave the few games I got for later, and I’ll skip system apps.

Games by size

Most other games are well below 200 MB and I’d rather save them for a blog post focused on that later, if I feel like it. Right now all of them are in danger of deletion anyway since I barely play them.

Finishing thoughts

When I was a youngling I remember being like ā€œwhy do you need so much space in your phone?ā€, and well, look at me now, I am holding up just because I am not that big of a photo taker or a music listener. There’s people out there who need 256 GB on their phones, that’s crazy to me, but then again, needing more than 32 GB was crazy for me 7 years ago.

Still, I think I can clean this up pretty easily, maybe compressing some pictures or transferring them to some external storage medium.

I really should look into some backup solutions off-site and such, both for this and my laptop, could be fun to setup at some point.

This is day 53 of #100DaysToOffload

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