One of the big problems with modern mobile phones is that they have no way to expand their storage; Most new models don’t have microSD card slots and only the cheapest phones include them.
This means that once you buy a cell phone, the space it has is what you will have until you change it. It is therefore particularly important to choose the right amount of storage, and perhaps not opt for the cheapest version with less capacity.
Although it may seem like a lot, 128 GB or 256 GB, in reality They fill up very quickly as we take advantage of our phones’ cameras for high-definition photos and 4K videos, not to mention games and apps that consume several GB.
Archived apps in Android 15
Fortunately, Google is preparing a new feature for the future Android 15 that can save us if we find ourselves with little storage available on our mobile. They are archived applicationswhich allow us to save the space that our applications occupy without having to completely uninstall them from the device.
Of course, the first thing many people do when they see that they have little space left on their phone is to check the apps they have installed and choose which ones they can uninstall; In this way, not only is the space occupied by the application reclaimed, also the space of files that were used with the application.
Archived applications delete a good portion of the files that occupy the most, but keep as little as possible to continue to be installed on the device. Apps cannot be used while archived, but recovering them is quicker and easier than reinstalling them; Just click on the app and the files needed to start it will download automatically, without having to completely download it again from the Play Store.
Readers of EL ESPAÑOL – El Androide Libre may think that this function is very familiar; That’s because it’s not really new. Archived applications already exist, but on Google Play; This is an option found in the “General” section of Google Play settings. The archiving process is automaticand this means that Google Play will select the apps that we use the least and remove them almost completely, leaving only the basic parts.
However, Mishaal Rahman discovered that Android 15 will implement archived apps at the operating system level; and will give users more power to decide which apps are archived, with “archive” and “restore” buttons in the app settings.
In addition, the Android configuration will allow you to activate the automatic archiving that Google Play already has, but directly in the operating system. Another advantage of this operation will be found if we use an alternative application store to Google Play, since archiving will even work with apps downloaded from other media.
Although the archiving feature may be enabled in the latest Android 14 beta, everything indicates that it is more likely that Google will wait until Android 15 launches it to all users.
