Cybersecurity company Avast conducted a study on Android devices, which found that 1/5 of the photos stored by users on their devices are either duplicates or low-quality photos.
In essence, the company's research identified more than 3 billion photos stored on more than 6 million Android devices, on which users had installed the Avast Cleanup.
Avast said that 16% of the photos analyzed during the study were duplicates or photos taken by users in burst mode - a mode that automatically takes a number of photos.
6% of the overall photos in the survey were blurry, poorly lit, or dark. As users, such photos are of low quality and not actually useful.
Furthermore, the research showed that 22% of all photos analyzed were simply taking up space on users' Android devices, consuming memory.
Avast research has shown that on average a user will have 952 images stored on their device. Of these, 154 will be duplicates and around 58 will be of poor quality. Of course, these numbers change depending on the total memory available on each person's device.
An average photo is usually 3MB in size, which means that when they are added up on an Android device they take up valuable space that could be used for other content. In the case of the latest smartphones, with their high-resolution cameras, etc., the size of a photo can be as large as 12MB. Therefore, the total space taken up can be several GB.
Of course, even if the user did not accidentally have low-quality photos or copies on smartphone , in many cases there are applications that create such problems. For example, WhatsApp is an app that by default automatically saves the photos that are taken. This is something that many users are unaware of. More specifically, the average number of photos found on Android devices due to WhatsApp is 292.
It is worth noting that very often, valuable space is taken up by screenshots that users take, as they completely forget to delete them.
