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TL;DR
- Samsung is altering how used storage is represented on One UI 6.
- The “System” partition is now precisely represented on One UI 6, whereas the conversion loss has been apportioned to “Different recordsdata.”
Earlier this 12 months, when the Samsung Galaxy S23 sequence had simply launched, there was some confusion round how Samsung showcased the out there storage on the telephones. It was wrongly presumed that One UI took up ~60GB of inner storage, which would go away base 128GB storage variants with nearly half the inner storage. Nevertheless, this presumption was debunked as a conversion loss error. Samsung is now altering how storage is proven on One UI 6 primarily based on Android 14, with the system partitions now precisely reporting how a lot storage they take up.
As highlighted by Max Weinbach, the Handle Storage part in One UI 6 now has a extra correct illustration of the assorted partitions and recordsdata that reside in your inner storage. We’ve hooked up a comparative screenshot of One UI 5.1 under for reference.
As you’ll be able to see, One UI 5.1 exhibits the “System” partition on our telephone as a whopping 39.4GB, whereas the identical is extra precisely represented in One UI 6 as a extra plausible 16.5GB. In return, the conversion error that was the reason for confusion earlier this 12 months has been shifted to “Different recordsdata,” which we are able to see as a somewhat tiny 81.75MB on One UI 5.1 and a whopping 11.34GB on One UI 6.
In fact, there may be room for enchancment right here. People who find themselves on the previous few gigs of their storage will nonetheless stay puzzled about what the “Different recordsdata” on One UI are and why they take up a lot area on their storage. The fact is that that area merely doesn’t exist in any respect.
Corporations market telephone storage in GB (gigabytes), which is measured in powers of 1,024, whereas telephone storage is represented in GiB (gibibytes), which is measured in powers of 1,000.
Successfully, a telephone marketed as “512GB” of storage truly has 512GiB of storage, which is 476GB in actuality. Equally, 256GB advertising and marketing is 256GiB in storage, which is about 238GB of actual storage; 128GB advertising and marketing is 128GiB truly, which is about 119GB of usable storage.
The distinction between these figures is what the “System” partition on One UI 5.1 and the “Different recordsdata” partition on One UI 6 is hiding.
Nevertheless, the figures don’t fully match what they need to be. “Different recordsdata” on One UI 6 on a 512GB telephone ought to be round 36GB (512GB minus 476GB), however solely exhibits a fraction of it. It’s potential that the telephone is displaying it as a ratio of storage used, through which case the “Different recordsdata” measurement will preserve rising as you retailer increasingly recordsdata in your telephone. When your telephone storage is totally full, the “Different recordsdata” measurement ought to be nearer to 36GB, thus hiding the marketing-storage disparity.
One UI 6 might be launched quickly within the secure department whereas it’s out for beta testers. We hope to get extra readability as soon as the official changelog arrives for the secure replace.
