Samsung Galaxy S23 series on sale at the beginning, due to up to 60GB of system space occupation, and triggered widespread concern among consumers and the media.
Subsequently proved to be Samsung in order to avoid users buying 512GB model, the actual available storage space is only 476GB of doubt, 1000/1024 storage specification conversion of 7% of the storage “loss” into the system, thus leading to the system space occupation is too high.
Attached is the system storage display footprint: on the 128GB model, the OneUI 5.1 system footprint is about 18GB, on the 256GB model it is about 32GB, and on the 512GB model it is 58GB. Depending on the region, smartphone model, and operating system version, there may be a deviation of a few gigabytes.
Samsung’s 256GB version of the Galaxy S23 Ultra, after upgrading to the One UI 6.0 Beta 1 update, shows a system footprint of 17.56GB, while “Other Files” takes up 4.98GB.
This other file is the 7% storage “loss” of the 1000/1024 storage conversion. Below is the storage usage of the 512GB Galaxy S23 after upgrading to One UI 6.0:
