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The phone app (by Google) has 700 mb of data on the phone. What is that? Call history? Contacts? Then what is in the contacts app? Is it safe to delete?

Stock Pixel 6a

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

That's < 100MB for me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Ok, and what is you point? The app I use is under 10MB and the data under 1MB. I do not know how can a log of calls and contact list be over 500MB. Another app I tested 18MB and 200KB of data. So you either have a contact list over 100 000 contacts or google contacts is abnormally huge. In the end is still 5-10x the size of alternative contact/dialer apps.

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