How much of your storage capacity has WeChat and Alipay taken up? Exaggerated

Although WeChat is called Wei, it occupies 5G storage space; although Alipay is called Bao, it has more than 40 permission requirements. Even though the starting capacity of a thousand-yuan phone has reached 64G, the available space is still stretched.

You know, the starting capacity of the flagship iPhone 6s 5 years ago was only 16G. So how much of your storage space does the app eat up, and how can we avoid it?

Forcing permissions is audacious

Many apps are extremely bold in their permission requests. They openly ask users for permissions. If you want to use my app, you have to give me permissions. No matter if I have a beauty camera or an input method, they will still want to obtain permissions for your address book, phone, microphone, and text message reading. Some even want to read your username and password.

Permission list? Sorry, no. Don't apps nowadays use permissions secretly? If the front camera hadn't exposed the recording permission, you would still be in the dark, right? Don't give me permission? Sorry, you are begging me to use it now, please click OK quickly, otherwise I will be automatically logged out.

Solution: Upgrade the Android system version, try to use a phone with a newer system version, use the Googleplay app version or the overseas version. Users with a good foundation in foreign languages ​​can set the system language and region to overseas, which sometimes works wonders.

Functional redundancy, integration of the whole family

Domestic apps have integrated too many functions, and it is no exaggeration to say that they are redundant. The result of too many functions is that the size of the app is getting bigger and bigger. It is very common to see applications with installation packages exceeding 100M. After installation and subsequent updates, it is easy to reach 500M.

For example, WeChat not only has the functions of chatting and circle of friends, but also has built-in shake, look, search, people nearby, drift bottle, shopping, etc.; Alipay has integrated functions such as Huabei, Yu'ebao, Sesame Credit, Ant Insurance, etc. These redundant functions are taking up unnecessary space and cannot reduce the occupied space even if they are turned off.

Solution: For applications that are not frequently used, you can use them through web pages or mini-programs instead of installing the app. For frequently used applications, try replacing them with apps that have simplified some functions, such as TikTok Express, Toutiao Express, etc.

Background occupation, unlimited wake-up

We know that apps will take up system resources in the background, but you may not know how serious the background usage is.

Since the computer's task manager can see the running status of each software, but it is difficult to monitor each software on a mobile phone, this leads to the silent running of mobile apps becoming more unscrupulous.

In order to keep the software active, app manufacturers have tried every possible means. Some will display a 1-pixel transparent window in the foreground to prevent the process from being closed, some will have multiple softwares grouped together to wake each other up, and some will automatically start every time the software is unlocked, making it hard for you to defend yourself.

These apps not only take up the phone’s memory and slow down the system, but also waste the phone’s power, further reducing battery life, which greatly affects the user experience.

Solution: Try to replace the software that occupies more background space with the same software, use background monitoring and management software to force close the rogue app process, and cut off the software from waking up each other directly.

The mobile application environment is crucial to all users, but it is unreliable to expect app manufacturers to change. We need to get all users to take action. We recommend that you install as little unreliable rogue software as possible and not sacrifice your own experience and more important privacy for some petty profits.

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