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Here's how Android 12 puts unused apps to sleep to clean up storage space

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Here's how Android 12 puts unused apps to sleep to clean up storage space

XDA Developers have gotten the feature to work on a leaked version of Android 12 that they recently received. The message confirms that the code for the app hibernation is present in the version, which is apparently newer than Developer Preview 2.

Google seems to be building on the unused apps section existing in Android 11 with the new Hibernate APPs feature in Android 12. In addition to automatically revoking permissions for unused apps, Android 12 will also delete temporary files for free up storage space on your phone.

App permissions

XDA has enabled the new unused apps section in the “App Info” settings for each app. Contains a toggle to remove permissions and free up space. By comparison, Android 11's toggle to remove permissions is found in the “App permissions” section of the “App Info” page. After the post managed to manually hibernate some apps, the settings for unused apps showed apps that hadn't been opened for a few months

Based on previously detected code changes, deleted files will consist of an app cache. It may not make a big difference in terms of the storage released on devices that have a lot of it, but users with entry-level or low-end phones can see the benefits. XDA is not sure that the app's hibernation feature will appear in the upcoming Android 12 developer preview. However, it seems more than likely that it will be part of the final release.

Android 12 automatically hibernate unused apps to free up space

While Google doesn't release the source code for newer versions of Android until the stable release for Pixel phones is ready, we rarely get a glimpse of some of the features that is upcoming. One of the features we were hoping to include in the next version of Android 12 is app hibernation, a feature that will free up storage space by removing temporary files from unused apps, until we have to use Hibernate APPs.Cick herre to know more about What Does Hibernate Apps Mean?.

While this feature does not appear in either of the two versions available to the developer, we can confirm that the code for the feature is present in the leaked version that we recently obtained. Indeed, these functions are not currently implemented in the live version and can be checked out by developers at any time in a future version

ANDROID 11 DEVELOPER PREVIEW 3

With the release of Android 11 Developer Preview 3, Google added a new "automatic revocation of permissions" feature that revokes an app's permission if it hasn't been used for a few months. Following the stable release of Android 11, Google shared more details about the feature, including a screenshot showing a notification that notifies the user when an app's permissions are revoked and a screenshot. Showing an "unused apps" settings page with a list of apps. Whose permissions have been automatically revoked?

 PERMISSIONS FOR UNUSED APPS

In addition to automatically revoking permissions for unused apps, Android 12 will also erase temporary files to free up storage space.

We are enabling a new "Unused apps" section on the "App Info" page for each app, and it contains a new option to "remove permissions and free up space". This relocation makes sense because the new switch supports both permissions and storage rather than just permissions.

After manually hibernating some apps, the "Unused apps" page appeared in Settings> Apps.

This page displays apps that have not been opened for a few months and their description indicates that permissions are revoked, notifications are stopped, and temporary files are deleted if an app has not been used for a few months.

None of these actions will free up a ton of space, but it depends exactly on the hibernating application and the number / type of files cached. Users who have low-end devices with less storage will see a greater benefit, but all users will benefit from having their permissions automatically revoked for unused apps. Although the version we got is newer than Developer Preview 2, we don't know if the app's hibernation feature will make a public appearance in DP3 or Beta 1.

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