Basically the title I installed a game, played some, got bored and wanna delete it but then remembered that I used to have a tab long time ago and we’d mess with it by installing a ton of games , So at a point it got too hangy that we deleted every game but it still wouldn’t work as good so we had to factory reset the thing which was very easy as we didn’t use it for anything and didn’t have to back up anything . That was a long time ago and I think the tab was running android 4 or 6 or 5 or somethin anyway I looked some online and the opinions are mixed I now run android 9 ( which I use barely ) and 11 (which I daily drive) . so if a game or app has no file or anything (at least I can’t find anything ) is deleting it after wiping data return the phone to the phone to the condition it was before installing it ? If so why did the tab behave that way ? I also remember an old huwai phone doing the same .
Sorry for the long read, just wanted to explain the question and got carried on . also feel free to let me know if this doesn’t belong here and just suggest another place to post it to and I will move it but don’t down vote in case I can get some answers .
Two kinds of data can remain after your deletion:
Things in an encrypted “secure store”. Passwords, certificates etc. may be stored outside of the app’s own data area, and so they survive the deletion. This is more common on iphones, but Android is catching up.
Things that got synced to an online service. Your delete command didn’t delete things there “in the cloud”, and that data may even get synced back later (for example, after you install the same app again). I have seen this mostly on Samsung phones, but maybe others have it as well.