WeChat upgraded with new features: My three-year-old phone is no longer stuck!

Regardless of the model, high configuration or low configuration, there will be a problem with mobile phones, that is, the longer you use them, the slower they will become. As long as you use them for a long enough time, this phenomenon will definitely happen. After the new WeChat upgrade, you can quickly and specifically deal with junk files! After cleaning, it seems that the phone has been reborn!

A phone that gets slower the more you use it

The problem of mobile phone slowdown will definitely occur if you use the mobile phone for a long time. However, today's processors are obviously not a problem of computing power, so what is the core of the slowdown? In my experience, it is because there are too many fragmented files. These fragmented files are mainly caches of picture files in various groups, video caches, thumbnails, various emoticon packages, etc.

The mainstream UFS protocol eMMC in mobile phones has been basically eliminated

The ROM of the mobile phone is NAND flash memory, and the protocol used is generally UFS. But in fact, if you look at all the press conference PPTs, there will be special propaganda about how fast your mobile phone's UFS3.1 is, but this data is generally for large files, with continuous transmission of 1700MB/s and random read and write of about 200-3000MB/s. But what about fragmented files? No one will tell you.

Semiconductor storage depends on 4K random read and write capabilities

We can see clues from the same SSD. People who understand SSD will not look at the peak read and write speed, but only look at the 4K read and write capabilities, but the 4K capabilities of UFS3.1 are hard to measure. When your phone is bombarded with various emojis and pictures in various WeChat groups, that's when your phone slows down.

WeChat 8.0.22 special cleanup

If you look at the introduction of WeChat's upgraded functions, it is almost always the same "fixed some known issues." If you use your phone for half a year or a year, when you go to General-Storage Space Statistics, you will find that the previous WeChat versions were very slow in statistics, often taking several hours. My WeChat has more than 100GB, and I spent a whole night counting it but got no results.

Bloated WeChat

But 8.0.22 has improved this capability, and the statistical speed has become much faster. It used to take N hours to complete the statistics, but now it only takes a few minutes.

And the space occupied by files will be divided into three types: cache, chat history, and other data.

After cleaning, there are only 60GB of WeChat

In this, the cache can be cleared, the chat history can be cleared by group or individual, and other data cannot be cleared. This time, the author cleared about 70GB of chat data, many of which were backed up continuously, and can even be traced back to seven or eight years ago. It is normal for an active group to have more than ten GB.

These data are actually dead data. A large number of cached emoticons, image thumbnails, images, video thumbnails, and various video files ranging from a few seconds to one or two minutes. They all slow down the speed of the phone. The remaining available space on my own phone has suddenly increased from a few hundred MB to 66.5GB! The increase in space is not an intuitive feeling. The intuitive feeling is that as the cleaning progresses, the speed will be significantly improved. After I cleaned up all the information in the groups except for the key work-related groups, the response speed of my phone became very fast!

Why use the built-in one in WeChat?

There are apps for cleaning up your phone, but why use the ones that come with WeChat? The reason is simple, because WeChat's built-in apps can clean up each group or individual conversation . However, third-party apps are generally "insensitive" and can only tell you how much the pictures and videos take up, and whether you want to delete them all. This kind of rough treatment is obviously not acceptable.

WeChat's built-in tools can clean up each chat

After the upgrade of WeChat, the statistics speed and cleaning speed have been improved. It should be that the WeChat team has also realized that this problem is a pain point that bothers users. It can be cleaned up specifically and no longer becomes a burden on the entire system. Even if your mobile phone configuration is not high, as long as you clean up the files in the chat history in time, you can still use it frequently.

So after reading it, did you clean up?