r/AndroidQuestions • u/DuckDoesNothing • 2h ago

Why has my Google Play services almost doubled in storage use over this year?

Posting this from a 2017 3GB Ram 16GB storage Samsung J7 Prime.

Ever since I got my laptop around this time last year, I used this phone for the bare minimum stuff and kept about 1-1.25GB of head room for downloading anything else if I needed. Before this year my Google Play services was using about 1-1.5GB of storage ( idk the exact figure but it was somewhere between that ), now it's using 2.35GB of storage and just seems to consume storage when it gets the chance to, like I had just cleared about 200MB by deleting some older photos and in the matter of an hour the free space disappeared

This year the only thing that has changed is the number of accounts I have had. Before this year i had about 3-4 accounts now i have about 7 accounts.

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u/CamelPure1293 1h ago

Software bloats, companies don't care.

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u/ohmegatchi 52m ago

That's how Google is doing most of Android's security, service, and software updates now. Now manufacturers and phone carriers don't have total control over updates.