Disabling the default Photo Editor app

[Incolor]

Hey there, so for a while i have noticed the default samsung photo editor app is taking up 10GB of storage. After a lot of troubleshooting with samsung support, i was told that my last resort would be disabling the app altogether. Can someone guide me with some info such as whats the name of the package for the photo editor app?

[Samsung_8GMF4Jd]

Photo Editor is highjacking 24G of data on my S20+. Wow, 3 years later and nothing  done to fix this issue! That's poor form. Just fix the data delete issue! This app is the killing the functional operation of my phone.  😡

[RedDogRabbit]

See my post on your previous post. 

Photo Editor is only using 116 Meg, of which roughly 4Kb is data for images. 

 

[Members_NVFsBNk]

Hi RedDogRabbit, your replies are not helpful.

For those of us who edit photos often, this is a big issue. If you do not edit photos often, your Photo Editor will not take up much space. My PhotoEditor data takes up 4.23gb on my S22 Ultra.

 

It's shocking Samsung has known about it for years and has not issued a simple fix that let's PhotoEditor clear the data properly.

Here is the issue step by step:

- Go to PhotoEditor App page

- Go to Storage

- Press "Clear Data"

- The data will say it is "0"

- Return to the app page. The data will be back to the original amount

- Go to Storage

- The data will be the amount before data was cleared

- Press "Clear Data"

Repeat forever.

After Samsung removed sd cards, having an app take up 4gb of space on my phone is unacceptable. And suggesting users Factory Reset is ridiculous when it is an app provided by Samsung that they can fix any time themselves. My only thought is Samsung knows the issue is a lot deeper than it appears and cannot fix it.

If you have a Windows computer, you can download something like ADB I believe and manually delete the PhotoEditor app and it's data. If you restart your phone and hold volume up and power to enter the boot menu, I believe all data for all apps can be cleared out. 

Factory resets are a nuclear option and should never casually be suggested.

And, not believing people for an issue that is common is not helpful. The problem people need solved is to simply clear out the data the app uses.

[RedDogRabbit]

When I clear the Data in the Photo Editor app, it goes to zero, and stays at zero. 

Are you saving edited photos as a Copy or? 

[Incolor]

For everyone still struggling with this, as i stumbled back to this thread by chance, someone mentioned above that the phone saves the edited videos/pictures in the background when you click "save" and not "save as copy", as expected.

One way to clear the original version of those files is to use the Media File Guardian app from Good Guardians.

!Be aware that this will delete the original version of those files, so you can not go back and revert the pictures/videos to a previous state afterwards!