{"id":238295,"date":"2026-05-02T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/why-android-aicore-occasionally-takes-up-more-storage\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:20:08","slug":"why-android-aicore-occasionally-takes-up-more-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/why-android-aicore-occasionally-takes-up-more-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Android AICore occasionally takes up more storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/05\/02\/android-aicore-storage\/\">Why Android AICore occasionally takes up more storage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/05\/02\/android-aicore-storage\/\">https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/05\/02\/android-aicore-storage\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-02 14:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"9to5google.com\">9to5google.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Android AICore lets you \u201crun generative AI features directly on your Android phone or tablet\u2019s hardware.\u201d These models (Gemini Nano) are inherently large, but Google now has a more detailed explanation of why Android AICore storage occasionally spikes.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-713615\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AICore is available on Android 14 and higher for supported devices (processors). Google provides a list of which features and apps use the local model:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Advanced proofreading<\/strong>: It enhances grammar correction and language understanding as you type.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)<\/strong>: It converts streamed audio and audio files into text transcripts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scam detection<\/strong>: It identifies messages that can be considered spam or scams.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Smart reply<\/strong>: It provides high-quality, context-aware response suggestions in messaging apps. For example, it works in WhatsApp, Line, and KakaoTalk through Gboard.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Summarization<\/strong>: It automatically creates concise summaries of recorded audio. For example, it works in the Recorder app.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Translation<\/strong>: It easily translates text from one language to another.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/Android-AICore-storage-1.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/Android-AICore-storage-1.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/Android-AICore-storage-1.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1080&#038;ssl=1 1080w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"2364\" data-id=\"713617\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=713617\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/Android-AICore-storage-1.jpg?quality=82&#038;strip=all&#038;w=468\" data-width=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/Android-AICore-storage-1.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/Android-AICore-storage-2.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/Android-AICore-storage-2.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/Android-AICore-storage-2.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1080&#038;ssl=1 1080w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"2364\" data-id=\"713616\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=713616\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/Android-AICore-storage-2.jpg?quality=82&#038;strip=all&#038;w=468\" data-width=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/Android-AICore-storage-2.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>More broadly, on-device AI is credited as allowing for enhanced privacy, offline functionality, and faster and more consistent performance:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cSensitive information remains on your device. It\u2019s never sent to the cloud or to Google.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAI-powered features work even when you have no network connection or are in Airplane mode. This includes text summarization and smart replies.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLocal processing removes the lag associated with cloud-based services providing a faster and more reliable experience.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Google support article now explains \u201cWhy storage use increases.\u201d When a new version of Gemini Nano is available, AICore \u201ctemporarily keeps both the old and new versions of the model for up to 3 days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\">Advertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is intended as a \u201cfail-safe [that] allows your phone to instantly revert to an&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/05\/02\/android-aicore-storage\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Android AICore occasionally takes up more storage https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/05\/02\/android-aicore-storage\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-02 14:04:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/06\/Android-16-storage-settings-2.jpg?resize=1200%2C628&quality=82&strip=all&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-238295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238297,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238295\/revisions\/238297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}