What are these miscellaneous files for?

I understand there are other posts about this but none of the solutions worked for me.

I'm showing 5.46GB for misc files and I just recently factory reset my phone and only installed a handful of needed apps. I deleted everything from mics files and I've turned off all the apps I don't use.

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Snn5

System Memory, the 5.46GB space used, is for the recovery files, Operating System files and Verizon bloatware. This cannot be removed.

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Snn5

System Memory, the 5.46GB space used, is for the recovery files, Operating System files and Verizon bloatware. This cannot be removed.

TimsS5

I've seen other peoples phones with less than 1 GB of misc files. How can that be?

Snn5

Well, IDK, unless they were running something unofficial. I show 8.31GB in my Misc. There are a lot of app data files along with my OS files plus some other app backups in there though, so I basically have 3GB more than my OS in that section. If I clean all that out, I am left with 4.5-5GB OS files in Misc.