This fantastic Android 14 feature lets you remove bloatware and improve battery

Every smartphone user despises bloatware, and despite notable improvements in operating systems, there are still many issues that need addressing. Luckily, it seems like Android 14 will include a feature to help you remove bloatware. What’s even better, this new find might also contribute to extending the phone’s battery life.

The resource management feature in Android 14 has the potential to significantly enhance both battery life and overall resource utilization on Android devices.

Mishaal Rahman discussed a cool feature in Android 14 that can cut down on memory and battery consumption for pre-installed apps. When you boot up the phone, the OS scans the system partitions. If it finds an app with an “exported launcher activity” during this process, the app gets into a “STOPPED” state until the user decides to open it.

Mishaal further explained, “this means that many preloaded apps that are launchable by the user won’t consume system resources until the user actually launches them.”

He also mentioned that Google describes this Android 14 feature as something that “significantly reduces the system resource (for example, memory or battery) usage.”

Regarding this feature, Google intends to incorporate it into the Android Open Source Project. It gives all Android OEMs a choice to opt-out if they want. Additionally, OEMs can choose to opt in and include specific preloaded apps in an allowlist, allowing these apps to use system resources without going through the regular launching process.

Rahman also pointed out that the Google Mobile Services bundle, which gets included in various OEMs, already has several standard Google apps on the allowlist. This makes sense because Google apps are crucial for any Android phone.

The main point to remember is that if all OEMs successfully integrate this feature, we can anticipate substantial enhancements in the performance of Android phones running Android 14 and future releases. We’ll have to wait and see if these features ultimately make it into the official version of Android.

It appears to be a robust solution for addressing problems linked to pre-installed apps. Nevertheless, we genuinely wish that OEMs adopt the feature, even if they choose to allow some of their own apps. The whole purpose of having such a feature is defeated if Android manufacturers don’t support it.