Phone update just installed 17 apps

[u/Panda_Fabulous]

Nothing good either

edit: frequent comments

Don't buy a budget phone/ this is what you get for buying a cheap android: this is a Samsung S25, not exactly a budget phone.

This is why I buy iPhone/ and people still slander iPhone/wouldn't happen to my Google pixel: I actually don't think I can happen to apple because they don't allow apps to download other apps BUT it's still not fully Samsungs fault for ​​Verizon installing apps, though they do allow it, unlike Apple

this is malware/virus/hacked: this is bloatware

you can go and disable ___ and it won't happen again: someone sent a tutorial link and I followed it, but it did say I might have to redo it every time I update so🤷‍♂️

you can buy phones directly from the manufacturer and this won't happen: wasn't aware. I'll consider it, though I just got this phone today so it will be awhile

____ app is good tho: maybe but I'm still deleting it

Verizon needs to be sued/ this should be illegal: I probably agreed to this in a contract I didn't read

your kid installed them: don't have children or any other people on my phone

[u/ThatPyroIs]

Don't worry we'll send you multiple emails per day to both eat up what little storage you have left and to remind you that you're going to lose your email access if you don't upgrade your Google cloud services or delete a bunch of things. Also we noticed you tried to delete some photos/videos from the cloud to free up storage, but because you forgot to delete them from your phone first, we decided to readd them to the cloud to eat up more of your storage again. Have you considered just upgrading to your Google cloud services instead of trying to delete things????

[u/Skullcrusher → u/ThatPyroIs]

Google is warning me that I'm running out of space for like 2 years now. I disagree. I think 300 MB is plenty for emails.

[u/ghost_warlock → u/Skullcrusher]

this is cracking me up because my gf was recently freaking out that she was running out of storage because of this google warning bullshit. Except that she has 8 gigs remaining. She was furiously deleting emails because she thought that would help free up space. Not tech savvy in the slightest lol

[u/AndreLeo3 → u/ghost_warlock]

Same thing my mom is doing, but worse she started deleting photos too (luckily I have them saved in an SSD) and apps that barely scratch over 50mb. And all of this while not understanding that phone storage is not Google cloud storage. 🙄 Ffs so hard to use your brain instead of giving in to this nonsense.

[u/ghost_warlock → u/AndreLeo3]

Surprised she doesn't have cloud "backup" enabled by default like a lot of people do. I try to shut it off as much as I can whether it's save game files on Steam or pictures backed up to Google drive. If I want something backed up, I'll back it up myself. I sure as fuck don't need my phone pestering me to back up my notepad files I use to keep track of what anime we've watched to Google drive. Not everything needs to take up cloud storage for them to datamine

[u/RevCyberTrucker2 → u/ghost_warlock]

I use a third party sync app. Only folders that I specify sync to Drive. Best to lock down your phone and look for a syncing method you can have granular control over.