A controversy flared up on the internet last February. HE Accuses Samsung of taking 60GB of storage with its system On Galaxy S23. Depending on the models this could represent up to: 25% of total memory. And since it’s “system”, it’s impossible to remove anything to save some space. Except that this is completely wrong. You should understand this the actual storage capacity of our smartphones is always lower than described in the datasheets.
Why ? Because The units of measurement used are not the same. we are used to seeing gigabytefor example 512GB. They are based on a multiplication factor of 1024 (1 GB = 1024 MB). The system displays the real area with another unit, GibibytesWith a multiplier of 1000. In other words, Your smartphone is sold with 512GB of storage, but you actually have 476GB of storage. On Windows this is the actual value you see. Not on Android.
Samsung tweaks the storage in OneUI 6 to make it more realistic
For example, to reach the expected total (512 GB), manufacturers artificially inflate the figures and zip the missing difference somewhere. It was in the “system” at Samsung until now, so the claim that it took up 60 GB of space created controversy. The Korean dev is taking advantage of the arrival of Android 14, on which the OneUI 6 interface, still in beta, is based, to clear things up. Now it is different from the “system”.
We see it in the screenshot shared by Max Weinbach: only 16.5 GB is used by the system, supposedly far from 60. Technically does not change the available space on the device. This is nothing more than a rearrangement of the exhibition to avoid new discussions that probably have no place.
Samsung changed the way storage is displayed in One UI 6; so people stopped complaining about things that weren’t a problem thinking it was a problem pic.twitter.com/AQ9KTXyfaG
— Max Weinbach (@MaxWinebach) 23 August 2023
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