App archiving in One UI 7 helps you free up space on your Samsung phone

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• 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.
• Although app archiving is an Android 15 feature, it’s up to OEMs to implement it, but some have chosen not to.

One of the top new features in Android 15 is called app archiving, and it’s a tool that frees up storage space by letting you delete an app’s installation and temporary files without touching its data. Archiving an app lets you free up some space without forcing you to fully reinstall it the next time you want to use it, saving you the hassle of setting it up again. Although app archiving is part of Android 15, manufacturers decide whether or not they want to implement it in their own versions of the operating system. Some have already chosen not to, but thankfully, it looks like Samsung is bringing this feature to its flavor of Android.

Samsung finally rolled out the first beta for its upcoming One UI 7 release late last week, giving us a sneak peek at what to expect in the company’s big update. While many of the new features are exclusive to Samsung devices, some, like app archiving support, stem from the open source version of Android that Samsung based its software on. Code for app archiving is indeed available in AOSP, but the feature itself is disabled by default. But now according to some One UI 7 beta testers, the feature is available for them, suggesting that Samsung has turned it on.




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