With Android 15, Google requires at least 32GB of storage for smartphones that want to have its suite of apps and services preinstalled (this is usually referred to as Google Mobile Services or GMS). Of those 32GB, at least 75% of the storage size has to be dedicated to the data partition, which stores preinstalled system apps, system app data, certain system files, and all user apps and files.
The previous limit was 16GB, enforced ever since Android 13, and before that it was 8GB. Note that a phone with less than 32GB of storage can’t even get updated to Android 15 if it launched on an…
Source: GSMArena.com – Latest articles