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Accelerated Share Repurchases, Shares Repurchased

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Final price paid per share for the purchase of the targeted number of shares, determined by an average market price over a fixed period of time.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Number of shares that have been repurchased during the period and are being held in treasury.

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Stockholders' Equity - Stock Repurchase Program (Details) $ / shares in Units, shares in Millions			1 Months Ended		2 Months Ended	4 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Oct. 29, 2021 USD ($) segment shares	Feb. 13, 2020 USD ($) segment shares	Dec. 31, 2021 USD ($) shares	Jul. 31, 2020 $ / shares shares	Feb. 24, 2022 USD ($) shares	Feb. 24, 2022 USD ($) $ / shares shares	Dec. 31, 2021 USD ($) shares	Dec. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($)	Aug. 31, 2021 USD ($)	Feb. 28, 2021 USD ($)	Jan. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Jan. 31, 2019 USD ($)
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Authorized repurchase amount										$ 3,000,000,000	$ 4,000,000,000	$ 5,000,000,000	$ 4,000,000,000
Number of financial institutions with ASR agreements \| segment	2	3
Value of shares repurchased							$ 4,542,000,000
Shares repurchased (in shares) \| shares							67.0
Unsettled forward contract for share repurchase							$ 188,000,000
Number of shares repurchased under the ASR agreement \| shares			3.4	74.0
Accelerated share repurchase, average price per share (in usd per share) \| $ / shares				$ 40.77
Subsequent Event
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Authorized repurchase amount					$ 4,000,000,000	$ 4,000,000,000
Number of shares repurchased under the ASR agreement \| shares					3.3	36.0
Accelerated share repurchase, average price per share (in usd per share) \| $ / shares						$ 69.43
Treasury Stock
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Value of shares repurchased							6,856,000,000	$ 5,119,000,000	$ 5,002,000,000
ASR Agreement
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Value of shares repurchased	$ 2,500,000,000	$ 3,000,000,000
Shares repurchased (in shares) \| shares	29.3	69.0
Unsettled forward contract for share repurchase	$ 187,500,000	$ 450,000,000
ASR Agreement \| Treasury Stock
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Value of shares repurchased	$ 2,125,000,000	$ 2,550,000,000	$ 187,500,000				$ 2,312,000,000
Shares repurchased (in shares) \| shares							33.0
ASR Agreement \| Treasury Stock \| Subsequent Event
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Value of shares repurchased					$ 187,500,000