The bloatware of the Galaxy S23 increases the weight of its Android OS to 60 GB
Since a smartphone does not have an easy way to increase the capacity of its base storage, it is a question of not cluttering the operating system with which it comes. Although the new smartphones reach large capacity storages and it is difficult to fill them, it seems that Samsung has taken it as a challenge, and for this reason the Android OS version of the Galaxy S23 takes up 60 GB of storage.
According to the senior technical editor of Esper, Mishaal Rahman; the weight of the base operating system of the Samsung Galaxy S23 is far above most of the ecosystem. Several users claim that it uses about 60 GB for the system partition right out of the box. Whoever had opted for the 128 GB version would have almost half the storage full.
The bloatware that Samsung has put on the Galaxy S23 occupies half of its storage in its basic model
It is believed that this size is due to the fact that it is a mixture between the fact that Samsung wants to have its own ecosystem of applications and has directly copied all the Google apps under its brand, and that they have not been very good at optimizing them. Samsung is contractually obligated to include Google applications, so both google version and samsung version are obtained. That means two app stores, two browsers, two voice assistants, two text messaging apps, two keyboard apps, and so on.
Samsung also sells space on its devices to the highest bidder through pre-installed software, which is called bloatware. For example, Facebook can buy a place in the partition and get more intrusive system permissions that are not granted to apps from the app store.
The Samsung Galaxy S60's 23GB system partition looks bad compared to the Pixel 15's 7GB, but it looks like it's actually worse than those two raw figures. Samsung isn't even using system A/B partitions. this would allow them have two copies of the operating system. One that is online and used, and one that is offline and in the background. When an operating system update is downloaded, a Samsung phone, with a single copy of the operating system, will need to be rebooted and will experience up to 30 minutes of downtime. In the case of having A/B partitions with two copies of the OS, it will continue to work and update the second OS offline in the background. Then, when the update is complete, it will reboot normally within 30 seconds and the device will switch OS, switching to the newly updated copy of the OS in the background. The dual operating system also provides the phone with a backup in case something goes wrong. This A/B partition feature was introduced to Android seven years ago, but Samsung is the only major OEM that does not use it.
Source: ArsTechnica
