Here's why your smartphone storage is disappearing so fast — popular productivity apps grew 10x in size in a decade, with Asana and Trello the major culprits, but video games remain the biggest data hogs

Smart phone with storage full icon on screen.

• Phone apps are getting bigger, and storage isn't keeping up
• Social media, games, and productivity app sizes having increased
• While apps include many more features now, they're also much bigger

If you've been wondering why your smartphone storage seems to fill up faster than ever, you're not alone. The days when 16GB of storage was more than enough are long gone, and apps that used to take up single megabytes of space now consume hundreds of MBs, sometimes even gigabytes.