I’ve seen memes about this so I know this doesn’t only happen to me. There have been times when I got warnings about not having enough space, so I deleted some apps from my phone. When the warning didn’t go away, I tried installing them again and it said I didn’t have enough space! Where did all the memory go?
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On Android, when you delete an app, it often leaves behind data that the operating system is unaware of, so it never gets deleted. The main data files for that app are deleted, but the leftovers will just sit there forever. You can manually search for and delete that leftover data yourself on any Android device. It doesn’t need to be rooted to do that.
On iOS, this doesn’t happen often, but when it does, syncing with a PC/Mac using iTunes or Apple Music or whatever fixes that.
Also, the word you meant to use is storage. Memory is something else entirely.
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