Android 12 hibernates apps you don't use and frees up space

One of the many features of Android 12 is that it will be able to hibernate apps you hardly ever use on your phone to free up more space. Hibernation, as this feature is called, was designed to address storage issues on smartphones.

Google, the company behind Android, has recently made some changes to the code of its smartphone operating system. One of these is hibernation, which puts apps that are not used often into an inactive state. These inactive apps will be referenced in the source code.

For the time being, it is not entirely clear how hibernation mode will be activated in Android 12. However, the thinking behind enabling it is to help ‘clear’ the user's phone of apps they do not find useful, leaving room for something new. Developers will be the first to test the Android beta version in February, while the official beta version, which will be accessible to everyone, will probably be ready for release in May. The final version of Android 12 is expected to arrive on compatible smartphones this coming September.