Why is the space storage left in your phone device becomes lesser if you connect and check it in the PC or laptop?

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My phone says I still have a certain amount of space left but everytime I connect it to my laptop, the space becomes lesser.

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Might I add to this discussion:
There are technically two different units that are commonly refer to as a Gigabyte. There’s a normal Gigabyte (GB) and then there is a Gibibyte (GiB).
Normal GB, MB, KB, etc is a base-10 measurement, so 1 KB is 1000 Bytes. 1 MB is 1000 KB, and so on.
However, it can be more simple in computing to refer to things in base-2, hence the Gibibyte, Mebibyte (MiB), Kibibyte (KiB), etc.
One KiB is 1024 Bytes. One MiB is 1024 KiB, and so on.
This causes a lot of confusion because they are referred to as the same thing colloquially, and especially in advertising. Why include 1024 GB when you can just give them 1000 and call it the same thing?