I periodically check to see if my phone has been adding apps when it self updates.
Today I learned that the TikTock app is almost a Gig. I have never used it and don't recall adding it.
Buhbye ticktock hello free space.
Hopefully things run better now
Sloppy code? When most apps are in the tens of megs... Why is commie all 900megs?
The dude before me explained it pretty well... The ACTUAL file size is roughly 150 megs. The inflated size due to your activity within the app, or that the app pulls from the internet. It very likely pre-loads content for you so videos "load faster"
So I have never used the ticktock app and it is 900MB. Every other app is 50MB or smaller.
That is quite the discrepancy...
Using the app or not makes no difference if it's preloading content for you to watch when you open the app. It's called a data chache, or a video cache.
Again, your over the mark, just not for the right reason. You don't need a massive app size to steal your info. I can make an application right now that on the surface is a 50mb file, but requires permissions so it can see your emails, phone contacts, text messages, GPS data, etc... And you'd see an app that has about 50mb, not 900...
For reference, get Outlook, the email application... It stores emails locally offline so you can see emails offline... This makes the outlook app, a simple emailing app, about 3 gigabytes for me, because I work a lot and receive 100s of emails a day. Same concept at work.
They're both spying on me, but neither due to their file size... I can make a calculator that requires access to your call logs, contacts, emails, etc... Stores it, and sells it to data collection companies, And it'd be like 50 megs... You don't need a lot of code to spy on someone.