My phone has about 1gb of storage left from 128gb total per Device Care Storage. I have approximately 50 apps " installed by me" for about 7gb. "Your apps" totals approx.150 (including the 50 apps installed by me) for near 10 gb total. There are about 10 gb used for audio, image, video. 20 gb for 'system' and 'other' files. That's about 40 gb accounted for. "System apps" filter on shows a total of about 500 apps! Thus about 350 (500 - 150) apps are apparently loaded by Samsung!!? and taking up about (128 - 40) 88 gb of the 128 total!! (Device Care shows 'Apps' taking 99 gb). Question is, is 350 system apps using 80-100 gb space "normal"?! And if not, how to get space back? I have cleared system cache and un-installed a few apps and constantly clear cache. Can't determine when this started. Trying to avoid a Factory reset.
The system files usually take up about ¼ of your drive, depending on the size of your drive. If it is larger than that, you should clear your cache partition.
Thx for the reply. System "files" isn't the issue. It's the ~350 system Apps for ~80 gb that's concerning. 80 gb is more than half my space. I did clear the cache partition to not much gain..
The system apps are part of the system, you want your phone to work, don't you? If you have a large system partition, you need the clean the cache. It can contain remainders of updates that didn't self clear and other detritus. You should be mucking around in the system files, as even though there may be many of them, you don't know what they are or their function. Some of what you are seing could be the temporary files in the cache. Delete the system cache by booting into recovery mode. I see you already cleared the cache and there was no change, then you would need to do a factory reset.
I'm aware that system apps are required! The system apps based on my troubleshooting were taking up a ton of my storage. I ended up doing a Factory reset and recovered storage.
I have the sane problems.... 400+++ system apps added by a policy forced on device. Was told it was some Google hack that is going around.. no solution yet
