{"id":247785,"date":"2026-05-16T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/aicore-is-turning-128gb-android-phones-into-a-storage-nightmare\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T17:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:45:19","slug":"aicore-is-turning-128gb-android-phones-into-a-storage-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/aicore-is-turning-128gb-android-phones-into-a-storage-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"AICore is turning 128GB Android phones into a storage nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/128gb-phone-must-retire\/\">AICore is turning 128GB Android phones into a storage nightmare<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/128gb-phone-must-retire\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/128gb-phone-must-retire\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-16 09:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s best pitch for AI on Android is also the one that makes its storage tiers sting most.<\/p>\n<p>The company wants phones to handle sensitive tasks offline, with local models doing the work instead of sending everything to a server.<\/p>\n<p>Some Android users are seeing AICore take up over 10GB in their storage settings, and for a few, it\u2019s so bad that they can\u2019t install apps without clearing space first.<\/p>\n<p>On-device AI may be the privacy-friendly path, but it needs hardware infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Android phone manufacturers are still selling 128GB models, like that\u2019s plenty. It really isn\u2019t anymore.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\t6 Android apps I keep on my phone specifically because they ignore AI<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Android apps that do their jobs without AI getting in the way<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"why-does-android-aicore-eat-so-much-storage\">\n                        Why does Android AICore eat so much storage?<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>             &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/128gb-phone-must-retire\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AICore is turning 128GB Android phones into a storage nightmare https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/128gb-phone-must-retire\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-16 09:30:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aicore-logo-with-a-storage-status-bar-showing-126-gb-of-128-gb-used-and-a-red-exclamation-warning-symbol.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-247785","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\/247785"}],"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=247785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247787,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247785\/revisions\/247787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}