Why is the phone app so big?

Blackout , 16 minutes ago

Cause it has to memorize everybody's number just in case you decide to call it. That's why your cell phone doesn't need a rotary dial anymore.

skullgiver , 1 hour ago

Did you enable call recordings by any chance?

I’m not entirely sure what part warrants the 94MiB app size, but 700 is a bit excessive for sure.

breakfastmtn , 2 hours ago

That’s crazy high. Both my fairly old P6 and very new P8 have about 65mb of user data. I may not have as many nudes tho.

299792458ms , 3 hours ago

Its safe to delete my man, its just 700 of your nudes.

Jokes aside its just a phone app that integrates with google services which is convenient but you know… using google is allowing google in your kitchen. So its basically “telemetry”.

You can use whatever app you like, preferably FOSS is the last thing I mentioned is what you are concerned about.

evo , 2 hours ago

So its basically “telemetry”

There’s just no way. Telemetry are just text logs and should never take more than a couple MB. They are also going to be deleted routinely and frequently after being sent to the server.

299792458ms , 2 hours ago

Its obviously not all just telemetry, it was an exageration, all they care about is your data and every feature they add is aligned for that goal whilst making the UI as “pretty” as possible. So I did not mention that because it felt unnecesary.

evo , 1 hour ago

It’s a drop in the bucket though. I’d be shocked if it was more than 1%. So it doesn’t explain anything.

299792458ms , 1 hour ago

Hey man, I did not mean to say that all 700MB were basically telemetry. I was only trying to say that the services purpose is data collection, implying that the app itself (GUI) and the integration of those services are responsible of the size of the app.

evo , 16 minutes ago

the app itself (GUI) and the integration of those services are responsible of the size of the app.

That’s < 100MB for me. https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/0cab7109-8fd9-48f1-9f4b-daedf33b1b39.png

gedaliyah OP , 1 hour ago

I don’t understand what data would be in the phone app. I use a separate voicemail app, there is a separate contacts app, and Messages should have all the text multimedia. The only data that should be in the app would be call history, which I don’t mind losing, but I don’t want to lose messeging media or contact info.

lemmyvore , 54 minutes ago

You should be able to export both contacts and texts if the backup app is given contacts permission and to be set as the text app temporarily.

Not sure about the text multimedia. If it’s in the system text database it can be exported, if the Messages app has it in its private data then tough luck.

Well you can probably still back it up to Google.