Omo, when it comes to apps on my phone, I actually have a number of them. However, the ones that I make use of are ridiculously few in number. Although I’m not one to just download apps without any cogent reason, I just usually find myself losing interest after a while, unless the app turns out to be something that I’ll be using on a regular.
And in this day and age where deleting stuff is like donating your own liver, it can be a bad trait because these things just pile up, they make updates and as we know, the upgrades always come with new features that only add to the size of what the previous model had.
There are apps that I’ve never used since I bought the phone, like the radio. I can’t believe there are still people who listen to radio in this day and age. Okay, just kidding, I can actually believe it. Then, why do we have a Gallery app and also have Photos app? Like, isn’t that basically the same thing? However, they have their differences though. The gallery is good for viewing, you can easily scroll through your pictures and thanks to Google Lens, you can use pictures to make searches on the internet. Photos app actually has more features, especially when it comes to editing pictures. That’s where I edit all the pictures I take. However, I’ve not taken pictures for a while, especially since I got into my final year, so the Photos app has been lying dormant.
A lot of the factory apps that came with the phone are not even being used. I don’t use my phone’s contact app, I use Truecaller. I don’t even use my phones messaging app because no one messages me again. I’ve warned people not to send me SMS because I’ll most likely miss it. I get so many spam messages on SMS, so if it’s not a bank alert, I won’t pay any mind. Most texting are done through WhatsApp and Discord.
There are other apps that I also don’t make use of, one of them is Xender. I don’t collect movies from people, and I don’t really send them either because these days I prefer to stream. It’s so much easier and leaves room for more important things. However, for some reason, I still have the app on my phone.
I used to have Zoom, Google Meet, Reddit, and so many other apps on my phone. However, I soon realized that these were apps that I was using sparingly. At least once a month. And that would be all. However, the apps were always getting updates, messing up my notification bars with the incessant notifications that were never enough to get me to go through the app.
Even though I needed these apps, especially the Zoom and the Google Meet, the fact that I wasn’t using them regularly meant they had to go. So, they went. Now, every time I need to run a Zoom meeting or Google Meet, I simply download the app. Logging in is never difficult and it’s always a seamless operation. Then, once I’m done, I uninstall it back. Until the next time.
This is the method I’ve been using for so many apps and it’s been working for me. I use it for a number of apps, deleting them and calling on them when I need them only to delete them all over again when I’m done. They don’t weigh much, and most of them are never up to 300 MB, which is not even up to half of what I spend every day on the internet.
There are so many apps that I’m actually using. Thanks to the internet and the beauty of owning a smartphone, there are so many opportunities online and these opportunities many times determine that you’d download apps that will end up becoming obsolete in your phones because you don’t make use of them.
Anyway, it’s the perks of using smartphones. Eventually, you’ll run out of space and then you’ll be forced to clean house. By that time, get ready to delete everything and be ready to start everything on a clean slate.
I guess time will tell.
