You made me curious enough to look and I discovered that the default keyboard on my xiaomi phone "emoji keyboard" is 1.1GB.

So, thats worrying for a number of reasons.

Does the "emoji keyboard" support searching for animated stickers or something? My guess is that it's littering your phone with thousands of tiny clips.

I'm not sure but the main side effect of clearing the cache and the data was to throw up a contract with a big i agree button.

not clicking that.

I personally disable my stock keyboard immediately upon getting a new phone and use AnySoftKeyboard myself.

I always thought this was an Android problem, so I nuked every default Google app. For some reason, Google search/voice app I probably used 6 times a year had ~500mb space. 300 of that was just "data" for god knows what. Gmail was reaching a gig. Youtube also half a gig even though I never save anything and maps was just wild. All these apps are over 200mb solo dolo. Why? One would think the best paid devs in the world, in one of the wealthiest companies in the world would ship the best apps.

They don't. Not even close. It's actually sad.

The official Reddit client may contain tons of traffic measurements which eat up the memory.

Analytics libraries