If you are like us and constantly install new apps and games, it is very likely that sooner or later you will run out of storage space; And that’s bad, especially when most modern phones can’t expand that space with microSD cards.
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The reality is that you haven’t used most of the apps you have installed on your mobile for weeks or even months. Google knows this, and that’s why it has implemented a feature that automatically detects unused apps and allows us to remove their permissions and gives us the option to uninstall them.
Archived apps on Android
But what if you don’t want to uninstall these apps? It could be an app that you only use very occasionally, but don’t want to lose; or you might want to keep that shortcut open if you suddenly find yourself replaying that game you installed months ago.
Google’s solution is called “archived apps”, and it’s a novelty that’s already being tested in the Google Play Store; appears as a new option when we go to uninstall an app, and it pretends to be a “middle ground” between keeping the app and uninstalling it totally.
Here’s how it works. pic.twitter.com/nPhRGt6xKL
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When we archive an application, only partially erased of our device, but not completely; the data is left in memory in case we want to reuse it soon. The Play Store will tell us how much data we can gain if we archive the apps we don’t use, and if we agree, it will start the archiving process, which consists of deleting only certain parts of the app.
The application archive function will save us space
In this way, if in the future we decide to use the application again, we can reinstall it from the Play Store as usual, but you won’t have to download so much data; so we can start using it faster and where we left off. Among the data kept in memory would be local data and documents generated by the application; In other words, in this way we would not have to synchronize our games or documents with the cloud, since these would not have been deleted.
The big advantage of archiving applications is that we would save a lot of space storage. The Google News app, for example, shrinks from 32MB to just 1.4MB this way; and when we install it again, we don’t have to redo all the configuration or add our fonts, because they are archived and the application restarts as if it had not been uninstalled.
Archived Android apps are marked with a cloud icon
Archived apps won’t disappear from your home screen either, although the icon will change to a cloud to indicate it’s not actually installed; if we press on it, the application download will start without having to go to the Play Store.
At the moment it is not known when the Play Store update that will bring this novelty will arrive.
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