Aiming to reduce user confusion, this change switches from the traditional binary system to the Base 10 system for calculating file sizes and device storage capacity.
Previously, there was some confusion due to erroneous reports that Samsung’s One UI software was taking up more than 30GB of space on the device.
The error was caused by differences in the way binary code and Base 10 are calculated for system files in the Samsung My Files application, as a result of which users decided that the Korean giant’s software took up noticeably more space than its competitors.
With the new update, One UI will calculate 1 GB as 1000 x 1000 x 1000 bytes. This is different from the previous method where 1 GB was calculated as 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes.
With this change, all Galaxy devices running Android 14 and One UI 6 will more accurately display the amount of memory used by system files.
Source: Ferra
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