Google adds new App hibernation feature in Android 12 to free up space from unused apps

Google delivered a keynote speech at the I/O 2021 conference yesterday, and we know some exciting news about Android and the Android ecosystem itself. The first thing we saw was Android 12 and its new Material You design language, which is one of the biggest UI improvements made to Android in recent years.

The main idea of ​​Google’s new UI guide is customizability, making your phone truly yours-to some extent, it also covers the ideas behind Android. But Android 12 is not only a pretty face. Starting from Android 12, the platform will provide some user-visible and low-level functions. One of them is application sleep.

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Today, we announced app hibernation and other privacy features, and this feature was previously found in AOSP code changes, and we even managed to turn it on in previous Android 12 versions. But for context, application hibernation allows you to put the application into a “sleep” state without actively using it.

Apps in the dormant state will optimize their storage usage, and their permissions will be revoked. Applications that have not been used for a few months will enter the “sleep” state, but if users don’t want unused applications to enter the dormant state, they can quickly turn this feature on and off.

To bring the app out of hibernation, you just need to open it as usual. Although Google says that the feature is now available in Android 12 Beta 1, you must wait for months to put the app into sleep mode, or manually put the app into sleep mode in the device using Shell commands.

We put the Speedtest application to sleep using the Shell command and got the screenshot shown above. However, if you want to try it yourself, the commands that need to be tested are mentioned in the “App Hibernation” section on the Android Developers website.

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