The Asian Age

‘ Good Morning’ wishes on WhatsApp are killing Android phones

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these kinds of images, GIFs and videos, most of which get forwarded on WhatsApp and end up reaching those who even don’t like such stuff.

Google has been up burning the midnight oil and deduced that India’s elderly smartphone user base prefers to send ‘ e- junk’ on WhatsApp for spreading positivity and expressing their good wishes. Therefore, for the country’s elderly that’s obsessed with WhatsApp, Google is taking the help of artificial intelligen­ce ( AI) and its clever image recognitio­n technologi­es to speed up India’s low- end midrange smartphone­s. Their recent Google Files Go app, which was meant to be a smart file managing solution for entry- level Android smartphone users, is using Google’s prowess in AI to fish out these annoying photos and videos from smartphone­s. Google’s smart algorithm looks for certain key properties of these images such as file sizes and file extension, along with certain visual deconstruc­tion abilities to read the junk files and provide the users with an option to delete them. The app is available for free to download on the Google PlayStore.

If you are extremely short on storage space, then it would be wise to turn off ‘ auto download images and videos’ on mobile data and Wi- Fi, thus letting you decide what to download and what not to. Also, it is advisable to keep clearing cache memory and remove unused apps to extract more space on your Android device.

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