TL;DR
- Built-in app archiving is reside within the Android 15 Developer (*15*) 2.
- App archiving will let customers archive their apps from Android’s settings.
- Users will be capable of select if they need the OS to robotically archive their unused apps.
Android 15 Developer (*15*) 2 has launched a bevy of recent options, starting from audio sharing to satellite tv for pc connectivity assist and far more. Included amongst that checklist is built-in app archiving, and it’s accessible within the preview proper now.
Back in February, we reported there was code in an Android beta that instructed Google might add baked-in app archiving. Earlier this month, we had been capable of activate this function and present the way it works. Now anybody can begin utilizing the app archiving function if they’ve Android 15 Developer (*15*) 2 put in.
As its title suggests, this function lets customers save on house by archiving an app. When an app is archived, it basically simply incorporates the unique app’s icon, together with some code that permits it to be absolutely restored when the icon is tapped. Since the code has the identical signature as the unique app, it may be put in on prime of the unique with out clearing any information. For instance, in the event you had been to archive Instagram, you may restore it and you’d nonetheless be signed into the app.
To manually archive an app, you’ll must go to the app’s information web page, as seen above. The choice to archive seems proper under the app’s icon. After you archive the app, you’ll have the choice to revive.
Users have had the flexibility to archive apps since 2022, nonetheless, this perform wasn’t native to the OS. This was a function that existed as a part of the Google Play Store. Now that the function is built-in to the OS, customers are actually capable of archive apps inside Android’s settings. Being baked in, customers can even have Android robotically archive apps in the event that they don’t use them typically.