YouTube's Smart Downloads silently ate 60 GB of this user's phone storage
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-11-07
A user traced mysteriously shrinking phone storage to YouTube's Smart Downloads feature, which auto-downloads videos in the background — user data had piled up to 59.95 GB (the app itself is only 201 MB). The feature is easy to miss; worth checking your settings and clearing storage.
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