If things continue like this, 1TB mobile phones are almost not enough, and WeChat is really becoming more and more swollen. Recently, WeChat pushed the official version update of iOS platform 8.0.47. The official update log shows that some known issues have been solved. The real focus is that the software update information shows that the size of this installation package is quite eye-catching, reaching 712.8MB.
You know, WeChat was only 457KB at the beginning, but along the way, its size has exceeded 700MB.
While the size has increased, the memory occupied has also been the focus of complaints about WeChat. Many netizens have said that if this continues, a 1TB mobile phone will not be enough. Now that I don’t have WeChat, it has taken up nearly 180GB of space (using up one-third of the phone’s memory space).
Some netizens complained that they need to reinstall the APP every month to use it more smoothly.
Subsequently, a blogger conducted an analysis and found that WeChat 1.0 only used 199 files to implement the core function of chatting. Version 8.0.24 reached 12,639 files, and now there are more. No wonder he joked, "98% of the files in the new version of WeChat are garbage."
In addition, the storage paths of various resources in the folder are also very confusing. The assets folder contains audio, and there is also audio under assets/sound. Different functional modules are completed by different people and are directly stitched together without classification and integration. Looking at the first-generation WeChat system, there was no assets folder at all, maximizing the use of system resources.