Cut back uninstalls in your app with auto-archive

Posted by Chang Liu and Lidia Gaymond, Product Managers, Google Play

Do you know that one of many predominant causes customers uninstall apps is to unlock area? At present, each time customers attempt to set up a brand new app on a nearly-full machine, they see a dialog that permits them to manually uninstall the app to make room. Nevertheless, typically uninstalling an entire app, together with the entire consumer’s app knowledge simply isn’t crucial.

To scale back pointless uninstalls and assist customers efficiently set up new apps, we’re introducing a brand new characteristic: auto-archive. As soon as a consumer opts in, auto-archive may also help them routinely free as much as practically 60% of an app’s cupboard space, with out eradicating the app presence or customers’ knowledge from the machine.

Archived apps are visually indicated with cloud icons and stay on the consumer’s machine.

Auto-archive is a brand new characteristic that permits customers to unlock area on their machine with out the necessity to utterly uninstall an app. As soon as the consumer opts in, occasionally used apps will probably be partly faraway from the machine to avoid wasting area, while the app icon and the consumer’s private app knowledge will probably be preserved. When the consumer desires to begin utilizing the app once more, they will merely faucet to re-download it and decide up the place they left off (so long as the app remains to be out there on Google Play).

Eligibility of auto-archive

Auto-archive is just out there for builders utilizing the App Bundle to publish their apps. In case your app helps archiving, customers will probably be much less prone to see it surfaced amongst uninstall options.

Customers can decide into auto-archive in just a few steps.

1. The consumer tries to put in a brand new app when the machine is out of storage.
2. A pop-up window seems asking if the consumer desires to allow auto-archive.
3. If the consumer opts in, unused apps on the consumer’s machine will probably be auto-archived to unlock sufficient area for a brand new app request.

Auto-archive is a straightforward manner for customers to handle their machine storage, and an effective way for builders to decrease the probability of their apps being uninstalled.