Google Just Fixed a Serious Android Bug, and You Didn’t Even Realize It



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For several months, Android had a serious bug, which caused an application pre-installed on the system consume mobile storage indiscriminately, reaching the 20 GB occupied. Worst of all, is that said app did not allow delete your data Nor did it give the option to be uninstalled.

The problem was reported by a large number of users, and portals like Android Central they echoed him.

Now, months later, Google has finally fixed the bug that it was depleting the internal storage of the devices of users around the world… although it has not even warned about it.



Android 12 on a Google Pixel 6 Pro.

The latest Android beta fixes the issue with storage.

Known to some users as “ghost storage,” the bug was caused by the “Phone and Messaging Storage” app built into the system of some Android devices. Since August of last year, there have been reports indicating that the app was taking up too much storage space at the terminals.

For months, some of the affected users shared their comments with Google. However, it was not until February of this year when the bug was remedied by Google engineers. The patch that puts an end to the error has finally been implemented with the Android 12 QPR3 beta 3. The final version of this edition of Android should be released at the beginning of June, along with the monthly Android update corresponding to that period.

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However, Google hasn’t detailed the bug fix in the update’s official changelog, so as discussed on Android Centralit is not easy to determine that the error has been corrected, except by contacting Google directly.

Be that as it may, the problem that has been affecting a significant number of Android users during the summer of 2021 has finally been fixedand the fix should roll out across devices over the next few weeks.

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