Android will archive apps to free up your smartphone storage

Google found a solution for this free up storage on Android smartphones. In a blog post published on March 8, 2022, the Mountain View giant said, “start work” on a new feature that will allow applications to be archived.

When a user decides to archive an app they no longer use regularly, Android remove some of this app. The application will not be completely removed from your phone. Google assures that archiving apps must allow free 60% of transferred storage With each application, the remaining amount of memory should be felt quickly.

Google offers to archive unused Android apps to save storage space

“An archived app will remain on the device and can be easily restored to the latest compatible version available while preserving user data”Lidia Gaymond and Vicki Amin, product managers at Google, say in the post: Android to hold app-specific data, an archived APK file. Data stored in the app such as usernames or passwords, notes or photos will be recovered when the app is reactivated.

Thanks to this innovation, owners of Android smartphones will not no need to uninstall apps periodically to save some memory. Likewise, they won’t have to expand their phone’s storage with an SD card or invest in a smartphone with a large memory.

Google points out that the archiving application is still in its infancy. The company has started making archived APKs available to all developers using App Bundles, Google Play’s publishing format. “As we begin to create archived APKs, they will not be functional until the archiving feature becomes available to consumers later this year.” It pisses Google off.

Therefore, archiving applications Available on Android by the end of 2022. The feature can be expected to be part of the innovations of the Android 13 update, the final version of which is planned to be distributed next September.