Android"s storage administration has steadily improved over the previous couple of years, with a storage manager added in Marshmellow and adoptable SD cards as properly. The subsequent small, iterative enchancment arrives in Android 7.1 Nougat, with System now separated out into its personal entry within the storage administration display screen.

Which means, when viewing the storage that has been used, it should now present System storage and the way a lot has been taken up by the System - on my 6P working 7.1, System takes up four.57GB. On my Wileyfox Spark, which runs Marshmellow (albeit Cyanogen OS, however nonetheless) ... I can not inform as a result of there is no System entry. To be clear, this doesn"t suggest you possibly can browse the System partition by way of the storage supervisor - when tapping "System," it reveals a dialog saying "System contains recordsdata that Android cannot show individually." No eliminating these root file managers simply but, then.

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Above: storage settings, displaying System as a separate entry.


As is turning into a theme with 7.1 Nougat, that is simply extra polish on high of an already excellent working system. It"s helpful to see how a lot storage the system takes up, particularly when clearing your cellphone or pill of months-old junk and a few such.