Samsung’s upcoming One UI 7 update will include support for Android 15’s app archiving feature. App archiving frees up storage space by removing an app’s installation files without removing its data.

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. App archiving will help save storage space by offloading unused apps while keeping user data intact. Archiving an app ...

Android 15’s new app archiving feature works with apps distributed as both APKs and Android App Bundles. In contrast, the Google Play Store’s app archiving feature only works with apps distributed as ...

No matter how much internal storage your phone has, it’s bound to fill up at some point. When that happens, the first solution that comes to mind is uninstalling unused apps. That makes sense, but ...

Apps take up a ton of space. And although companies are making smartphones and tablets with more storage than ever before, the apps that fill them remain chock full of unnecessary bloat. Enter App ...

Google is readying 'App Archiving', a feature for Android that will selectively eliminate some components of unwanted or unused apps without uninstalling them, and preserve user data for later use.

Jay primarily writes news and deals posts for Android Police. Before joining AP, he spent the past several years yammering on about the crazy world of Android for various tech outlets. Besides ...

At some point, most of us have had to uninstall apps to free up space on our phones. And while it's become less of an issue in recent years with the introduction of devices that start with 64GB and ...

Android 15 will extend the ‘app archiving’ feature to F-Droid. The popular app store is the first third-party platform to support the new capability. The Android Operating System (OS) has been ...