Here's a first look at Android 15's built-in app archiving feature

Tabitha, 3 months ago

Seems kind of useless, unless you can restore older versions of apps (e.g. dev sells out or goes rogue).

1984, 3 months ago

Except it won’t archive Googles own apps of course. The ones who keep running in the background spying on all activity.

Voytrekk, 3 months ago

Seems like a way of saying deleting the app without deleting your data. I guess most users must not be regularly pruning unused apps to make this a desired feature.

blackbarn, 3 months ago

This is basically what iOS devices have right?

evo, 3 months ago

Seems like it. I think it’s called “Offloading” on iOS.

Railcar8095, 3 months ago

While it’s nice that it ensure data is preserved, the fact that the app has to be downloaded again makes it just meh. I want to have apps frozen when I don’t want to use them, and instantly available when I do. I have several apps in shelter to mimic this behavior.