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    What's eating up space on my LG phone?

    It shows 15.74MB same as the size for the app. I need to look into why Google Play services is using 1.4GB. I gotta believe a large chunk of that should be available to remove.
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    What's eating up space on my LG phone?

    The native messaging app takes up 16MB which I assume includes all the sms history I haven't deleted. Chrome is the one big one but even that is reported at 643MB showing 372MB internal memory the rest is data usage. I typically use Chrome for the very reason of avoiding giving permissions to...
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    What's eating up space on my LG phone?

    That is a good lead and I suspected that photos might have something to do with this even though I do clean them up from time to time but unfortunately that directory is inconsequential. The entire DICM directory is only 300MB and the thumbnail directory, while it hasn't been cleaned, only...
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    What's eating up space on my LG phone?

    Sure, it's 64GB internal with no SD inserted at the moment.
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    What's eating up space on my LG phone?

    I can accept that Android/bloatware has grown this big. The thing is that the V20 hasn't received updates for years and the available space seems to be declining. I keep removing stuff, use the phone for a few months then I get the notice that I'm running low on space again...
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    What's eating up space on my LG phone?

    Thanks, though I joined a long time ago I just don't post much as I have been able to find most things! Thanks for the tip on the app I haven't seen this one before. Ok, it's reporting 17.8GB for system which seems very high. My two year old Samsung that has 128GB internal space is reporting...
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    What's eating up space on my LG phone?

    I do have WhatsApp but I only use it a few times a year. I mostly use Twitter and Facebook and if they preload pictures/videos that could be at play but wouldn't these be included in the memory usage? Something unreported is taking up space this is why I'm thinking it would be a system...
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    What's eating up space on my LG phone?

    I have an old LG V20 (64GB) with the following usage reports used/free GBs: After connecting to my laptop windows explorer and checking each directory: 31.9/32.1 Windows explorer properties on V20 internal drive: 50.1/0.9 Phone file manager: 54.3/1.5 I suspect the culprit is hidden backup...