Samsung Is Changing How Storage Is Shown In One UI 6
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- Samsung is changing the way memory is represented in One UI 6.
- The system section is now accurately represented in One UI 6, while the conversion loss is split into other files.
Earlier this year, when the Samsung Galaxy S23 series was just launched, there was some confusion about how Samsung displayed the available storage capacity for the phones. One UI was mistakenly assumed to take up around 60GB of internal storage, leaving the base 128GB storage variants with almost half of the internal storage. However, this hypothesis was rejected due to transformation loss error. Samsung is now changing the way memory space is displayed in Android 14-based One UI 6, with system partitions now showing exactly how much memory space they're using.
As noted by Max Weinbach, the storage management section of One UI 6 now includes a more detailed description of the various partitions and files in your internal storage. We have attached a comparison screenshot of One UI 5.1 below for your reference.
As you can see, One UI 5.1 shows our phone's system partition as 39.4GB, while One UI 6 more accurately shows it as a more reliable 16.5GB partition. A confusing conversion earlier this year led to the creation of "other files". which we can see in much smaller sizes of 81.75 MB in One UI 5.1 and 11.34 GB in One UI 6.
There is obviously room for improvement here. People with a few units of memory to spare still don't know what "other files" are in One UI and why they take up so much space in their memory. The fact is that this area simply does not exist.
Companies market phone memory at 1,024 gigabytes (gigabytes) and phone memory at 1,000 gigabytes.
Indeed, a phone marketed as having "512GB" of storage actually has 512GB of storage, which is actually 476GB. Likewise, the 256GB sold is 256GB of storage, which is roughly 238GB of storage. actual 128GB market storage is actually 128GB or about 119GB usable storage.
The difference in these numbers is what hides the System section in One UI 5.1 and the Other Files section in One UI 6.
However, the numbers are not quite what they should be. On a 512GB phone, the other One UI 6 files should be around 36GB (512GB minus 476GB), but they only show a small fraction. The phone may display this as a percentage of memory used, in which case the size of "Other files" will continue to grow as you store more and more files on your phone. When your phone's memory is full, the size of "other files" should be close to 36 GB, which hides the lag of marketing memory.
One UI 6 will be released to the stable branch soon while it is available to beta testers. Hopefully we'll get more clarity when the official changelog for a stable update is available.
