the app bloat is just horrendous.

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have a phone with 128GB storage, no micro sd option (I took the dual sim route over microsd & 1 sim).

Being a dad, I do take pics of kids. and would really really prefer to just have everything on the phone, but I do realise I have to ration and probably archive some of the older photos.

supermarket and restaurant apps, resturants want you to use the reward system, nados requires you to use app to order from the table. All about 150-200mb -
ikea app (famil card barcode) - 155mb
banking apps - all around 300mb each, I have about 7 banking apps.

I have so many apps on my phone that I never use on a daily basis, but I just keep because that one occasion i MIGHT need it, like franca manca. I used to go there before but now it's been years since I went. But they have me on the rewards program so I need to have it.

I really wish a lot of these companies just made a really good mobile website that looks and feels like an app so we can just use that instead. Every single app is duplicanting the same dependancies because the phone OS probably does not share drivers, I onder understand why HSBC banking app needs to be HALF A GIG. I didnt want to have a bank account and not use an app becasue banks rely heavily on the app for authentication. So because I'm not using my hsbc account much, and I needed to recover space on my phone. I just closed my hsbc account so I can delete the app.
 
What about creating folders on phone desktop with specific apps within that? This is what I do

Creating folders only solves a bit of visual clutter, it doesn't fix the fundamental problem that everyone and everything seems to want/need their own app sucking up 10s and 10s of GBs of space cumulatively.

I'm hardly an app 'power user' and I've managed to somehow amass 60GB of apps. Just glad I didn't opt for a 128GB phone.
 
I know you'd rather have the photos on the phone, but it really is worth the extra few quid for google storage.

Or setup your own.

Be absolutely devastating to drop or lose the phone unexpectedly that way.
 
Creating folders only solves a bit of visual clutter, it doesn't fix the fundamental problem that everyone and everything seems to want/need their own app sucking up 10s and 10s of GBs of space cumulatively.

I'm hardly an app 'power user' and I've managed to somehow amass 60GB of apps. Just glad I didn't opt for a 128GB phone.

Try using a cleaner it usually gets 2gb back on mine. Clears temp files
 
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