Gallery Collecting Emoji Icons

[jtv1]

Dear Huawei P30 Community

I am having an issue with my pic/vid gallery where, when I come to clean unwanted or unnecessary image items that I am finding these emoji's taking up my phone storage space.

But I have never requested these items.
Why do they keep filling up unwarranted storage space on my phone?

I do hope there's a remedy!

 

[B. Diddy]

It's likely due to some app you installed that caches these images to an app directory, and the developer forgot to add a .nomedia file to that directory. Do you have any 3rd party keyboard apps installed? Which social media apps are on the phone?

You can get a better idea of which app is responsible by selecting one of those images in your gallery, tapping Info/Details, and seeing what its directory name is.