Save Space on Your Phone by downloading and saving Apps

If you are looking to to free up another place on your phone, one of the most common suggestions is to uninstall apps you don’t use much. You save on the sites they are taking and the bandwidth needed to process them, and you also prevent them from collecting data on you.

However, if you don’t want to uninstall apps that are rarely used—if you need them—there is another option. All of them Android and iOS it helps you to remove a good amount of data and files associated with the program, without deleting it. The app icon and other details stay on your phone. If you need it again, all other important information is taken from the Internet, and the program is restored.

Android calls it app storage, and on iPhone it’s called app download. When you turn on the feature, you can have everything done automatically for you – meaning that your least used apps don’t take up too much space on your device, but are still easy to access when needed.

Saving Apps on Android

You can manually backup any app on Android.David Nield

Starting with Google’s mobile operating system, saving an app “deletes its apps, permissions, temporary files, and disables notifications, but keeps the logo and data” in Google’s words. You can choose which apps to cache yourself, or let Android make the decision based on the apps you use the least.

To save an app manually, open Settings and select it Softwarethen select the app you want to save (tap See all programs if what you want is not visible). Click Save to save it: The app icon in the app drawer – and on the home screen, if available – will have a save icon next to it (arrow inside the cloud icon). To restore a saved program, just click on its icon. After a quick restore, the program will start as normal.

To do all this automatically, open the Play Store app: Click on your icon (top right), then choose. Favorites and Generaland support Backup software. Google hasn’t specified the process it uses to decide when an app should be backed up, but you’ll see a cache icon next to the name of each backed-up app as it appears when you start the service manually.

If you have turned on app backup, you can back up apps individually if you want. You can also prevent certain apps from being saved by default: From the Android Settings main screen, select it Software and then select the program you want to protect. (Papa See all programs if you don’t see it.) Turn it off Update the program as unused toggle switch, and it will be left alone.

Downloading Apps on iOS

iOS will automatically download apps.David Nield

If you’re using an iPhone, iOS allows you to download apps. As with Android, most of the software is removed to free up space, and the main information is kept on your phone. For example, if you decide to restore the app, you won’t need to log in and reset the settings.

To access the option, open Settings on iOS, then select it App Store. You will see a switch listed Download Unused Softwarealong with little knowledge of what it does. Downloaded apps still appear on the home screen and in your app library, but they have a cloud icon.

Apple doesn’t say much about the process it uses to decide which apps are downloaded — whether an app is left empty before you take action, for example — but you can quickly restore an app by clicking the icon. The required content will be downloaded again, and the program will restart normally.

You can also download the software manually, if you want. From Settings, select it Generalthat’s it iPhone Storage. You will see a list of all installed programs (you can resize them using the filter at the top, if needed): Click on a program to find it Offload App perhaps. That button changes to Reinstall the Appwhich will restore the program.