Avast Blog_News: Avast Photo Research shows 22% of all photos stored worldwide are ba

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Research from nearly 3 billion photos shows how many of our pictures are low-quality or duplicates, and which countries have the highest number of these “bad” photos.

With large amounts of storage available on our modern smartphones, most of us have gotten into the habit of unconsciously snapping photo after photo, not giving a second thought to what that behavior might “cost” us. And that’s exactly what inspired a group of us at Avast to answer a higher calling to curiosity. We started digging deeper, asking more pointed questions, and as a result, kicked off a unique photo research project. Now that we’ve crunched the numbers, we’re left with some very interesting snapshots – if you’ll pardon the pun – of how we humans use our digital devices to capture our most memorable (or not-so-memorable!) moments in megapixels.

We looked at how many bad, wasteful, and duplicate photos our users detected using Avast Cleanup for Android. We found out how many poor-quality photoswe take, and which country’s population saves the most. Most importantly, we now have an answer to the million-gigabyte question: How much space are we’re wasting, anyway? of us have gotten into the habit of unconsciously snapping photo after photo, not giving a second thought to what that behavior might “cost” us. And that’s exactly what inspired a group of us at Avast to answer a higher calling to curiosity. We started digging deeper, asking more pointed questions, and as a result, kicked off a unique photo research project. Now that we’ve crunched the numbers, we’re left with some very interesting snapshots – if you’ll pardon the pun – of how we humans use our digital devices to capture our most memorable (or not-so-memorable!) moments in megapixels.

If you haven’t read part 1, do that now. If you’re all caught up, read on. And, click the infographic above to view all the details.

Bad and duplicate photos

What qualifies as a bad photo? Our Avast Cleanup for Android app comes with built-in detection for blurry, poorly lit, oversaturated, and even completely dark photos (the ones you sometimes take in your pocket inadvertently). Or maybe you accidentally hit “burst mode” and take 20 duplicate or nearly identical photos.

Methodology

Gathered from aggregated, anonymized data, Avast conducted a global study of nearly 3 billion photos from over 6 million Android photo-cleaner app users around the world from December 2018 to June 2019. Our users saved nearly 3 billion photos on their Android phones (data from Avast Cleanup for Android).

We found that on Android phones, an average of 6% of the photos were poor quality, blurry, or completely dark. Additionally, 16% of the photos could be considered duplicates.
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