REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Oct. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- Avast (LSE:AVST), a global leader in digital
security products, today revealed that the typical person has 952
photos on their devices at any given time, of which as many as 22%
are bad quality, blurry, dark or duplicate images. The research
found that on average 292 images are stored by WhatsApp and 86
screenshots are saved by the users, and getting rid of these photos
could free up at least one fifth (20%) of a smartphone's storage
space, increasing the enjoyment of the device.
The worst offenders
Perhaps defying expectations of
the 'selfie generation', the research found that 18-24 year olds
actually have the fewest number of photos saved, perhaps due to the
increasing popularity of near-live photo content through Snapchat
and Instagram stories, which disappear after 24 hours. 25-44 year
olds have the highest number of photos on their devices, with over
1,000 stored in their phone memory.
"Why do people carry around really bad photos? This could be
because those who are parents in this age bracket are taking lots
of photos of their kids, and cannot bring themselves to delete the
less than perfect ones or do not have the time to go through their
photos properly, something many of us can relate to," added
Sandro Villinger, Performance
Products, Avast.
The research also found that women take 24% more photographs
than men do, with an average of 200 more photos stored on their
device and 1,053 photos in total on their camera gallery, compared
to an average of 851 for men.
Global trend
The data shows that in general, having
many hundreds of photos saved on your device is a global trend, and
that smartphone users in each of the 45 countries Avast studied are
also not regularly deleting the bad ones. In Japan, almost a third of smartphone user's
storage space is wasted because of dark, blurred or duplicate
snaps, and in the UK, consumers waste almost a quarter of their
hard drive space.
Sandro Villinger
added, "Increasing amounts of storage and great in-built
camera quality on our smartphones allow us to snap away
happily. However, phones that come with large in-built storage
capacity are still among the most expensive, and additionally many
services today delivered via apps that have to be downloaded. It's
easy to see how a lack of memory on your phone can really impact
your enjoyment, so getting into the habit of deleting bad photos
regularly is a quick and simple way to keep your current device
usable."
Visit the Avast blog to find out more about which countries take
the most photos and what quality they are.
For more details on Avast Photo Cleaner for Android, please
visit: https://www.avast.com/cleanup-android
*Methodology
The data in this document is anonymous
data analyzed from 6 million Avast Cleanup users on Android and
Mac. The data was collected across a six month period, from
December 2018 to June 2019.
About Avast
Avast (LSE:AVST) is a global leader in
digital security products. With over 400 million users online,
Avast offers products under the Avast and AVG brands that protect
people from threats on the internet and the evolving IoT threat
landscape. The company's threat detection network is among the most
advanced in the world, using machine learning and artificial
intelligence technologies to detect and stop threats in real time.
Avast digital security products for Mobile, PC or Mac are
top-ranked and certified by VB100, AV-Comparatives, AV-Test,
OPSWAT, West Coast Labs and others. Visit: www.avast.com.
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