Why is it that it takes my phone almost an hour to download 6GB worth of data for an app, but upon deleting the app, it only requires less than 10 seconds to wipe all the data in the app from my phone? By deleting the app from the phone, I mean deleting the app from the home page. Thanks in advance!
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>it only requires less than 10 seconds to wipe all the data in the app from my phone?
This is not what happens.
A simple deletion is instant because your operating system does not physically move around or remove data. It simply assigns the existing data a new path or removes an existing one. Think of it as changing labels in a warehouse – instead of moving a box from row 1 to row 4, you simply look at row 1 and say “this is now row 4”.
In that case it’s “this row is empty”.
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