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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by BatteryMountain on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @02:37PM (#46517446)
Biggest Google Apps for me:

Gboard 247MB

Google 415MB

Google Play Services 1330MB

Google Play Store 165MB

Messages 321MB

Gmail 233MB

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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by trinix912 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @03:42PM (#46518384)
Holy... What kinda heavy lifting is Google Play Services doing with those 1330 megs?
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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by ChoGGi on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @06:44PM (#46520553)
Dunno but my userdata for play services is 623MB.
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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by anthk on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:23PM (#46519685)
Instead of Gboard, get Anysoft keyboard from https://f-droid.org, enable Gestures in the settings. You'll thank me later. Also, F-Droid has different keyboard layouts for Ansyoft such as better ones for SSH and OFC language related layouts.
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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by ThePowerOfFuet on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:40PM (#46519857)
Futo Keyboard.

https://keyboard.futo.org/

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