Phone Storage Problem: Nowadays, the smartphones coming in the market come with 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB storage so that people never have any storage problem. Users also select variants for themselves according to their needs and work. Still, many times you must have seen that people face storage problems in their smartphones. The storage of people’s phones gets full and then to create space in the phone, they have to delete their important data, which includes photos and videos. This is a common problem, which can come in front of anyone. But, a trick of Google Play Store can help you in this. Let us tell you how.
Many people think that Google Play Store is only for downloading apps. They think that you can download whatever app you want from here. But, its benefits are not limited to this only. It gives many other facilities to people, such as the facility to update and uninstall apps. Similarly, there is also a facility to archive apps on this Google Play Store, which saves phone storage.
what is this facility
Many times people install many such apps in their smartphone which they do not use. Even if you do not use these apps, they still consume storage due to being in the phone. Google provides the facility to archive these apps. You can archive these apps by going to Google Play Store. Let us tell you the method.
How to archive apps
1. First of all open Google Play Store in your Android smartphone.
2. Then click on the profile picture visible in the top right corner on the home screen.
3. After this a pop-up menu will open on the screen. Select the Settings option here.
4. Then a new page will open. Here you have to tap on the General option visible at the top.
5. Then a new window will open, where you will see many options.
6. Here you turn on the toggle of the Automatically Archive Apps option.
By turning on this toggle, the apps on your phone that you use less will be archived. But, the data and information of those apps will be saved. Also, the icon of those apps will remain visible. Whenever you tap those apps, those apps will be reinstalled. This will save your phone’s storage.