The Samsung Galaxy S23 series was introduced at the Unpacked event that took place on February 1. Along with the company’s new phones, the long-awaited One UI 5.1 interface has also debuted. However, the latest information about this interface surprised everyone. One UI 5.1 is said to use 60GB of memory on system partitions due to malware. Are these statements true?

One UI 5.1 software does not consume 60GB of memory on the new Samsung Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23 Plus or Galaxy S23 Ultra

Recently, there were reports that One UI 5.1 software on the new Samsung Galaxy S23, S23 Plus and S23 Ultra was using 60GB of memory on system partitions due to malware. However, these claims are false. So what are system partitions?

Android OEMs usually allocate some space to store system apps that cannot be uninstalled by the user. It varies from device to device. In the case of the Galaxy S23 series, the memory allocated for system partitions does not reach 60 GB. For example, the 128GB Galaxy S22 Ultra allocates only 26.09GB for the system, while the 512GB Galaxy S23 Ultra uses 55.23GB.

It is worth noting that the amount of memory reported by Android devices is usually converted from GiB to GB and this conversion may cause some loss. For example, a device advertised with 512GB of storage may actually have around 476GB of available space. One UI 5.1 reports conversion losses in the “system” section, causing some confusion about how much memory the software consumes.

So 60GB virus reports on Galaxy S23 series are not accurate. The amount of memory allocated for system partitions is reasonable, and the apparent high memory usage is due to conversion losses and tagging on the system partition. Samsung did not mislead consumers about the amount of memory available on the devices.