Automatic archiving of applications on Android - Frees up storage space

iPhone and iPad users know very well what automatic archiving of applications on Android means. A similar feature was introduced by Apple a few years ago on operating systems iOS and iPadOS. Offload Unused Apps.

The feature that allows automatic archiving of applications on Android is designed to give Android phone users the opportunity to get more free storage space.

It happened when you had to take a lot of pictures or video recordings with your phone, to run into the problem of limited storage space. The solution was to search through the installed applications and see what you can uninstall to get free space.

When you have to uninstall an application, in addition to the application itself, the saves from that application will also be deleted. For example, applications for creativity or productivity, which save the content in the application.

What is automatic application archiving on Android (Auto-Archive)

With the new feature, auto-archive, some applications will be uninstalled without losing the saves made by them. So that once the application is reinstalled, you will find all the original content inside it. Basically, by auto-archiving only the application itself will be deleted, keeping the data created with its help on the phone.

Auto-archiving of applications will be done automatically, when there is no more storage space available on the phone to install new applications or games.

The uninstalled (archived) applications will be the ones you have used the least. The icons of these archived applications will remain on the phone screen marked with the cloud sign, so you can reinstall them at any time, when the storage space allows.

Automatic archiving of applications is definitely a good method for better storage space management.