If you’re one of those folks who like have absolute control over your phone and dislike the unnecessary pre-installed apps, you’re already familiar with system apps. You also know that since they’re System apps, there’s nothing much we can do other than disabling them to get to rid of them without root access; be it for battery concerns or other annoyances.
Rarely, you might also have come across a situation where you thought you didn’t need a (system) app, so disabled it and later found yourself enabling it for whatever reasons. For example, in my case, this happened with Duo which came pre-installed on my phone.
When & if you have been in a similar situation (i.e disabling & re-enabling a system app) you know that you’ll have to update the app again since you agreed to lose the app updates & data when you disabled it. But what if you didn’t have to? Turns out, you can just do that and it all comes down to a single tap in the right place.
Next time when you try to disable a system app, and you get the following warning, just tap anywhere outside the dialogue box & voilà! The app is now disabled with its updates & data intact. You can reaffirm this by enabling the app again and launching it.
I don’t know if this trick works because it’s a glitch or because that’s how it is by design but it’s a really handy trick to know when you want to retain data of the app that’s going to be disabled comes across the situation I described.
Few notes:
- Disabling an app this way will retain it’s data as shown earlier. Obviously, this is not the way to go if you’re disabling an app for good; to gain some storage space.
- Although this method retains the app updates, there might be a newer version of the app on a Play Store when you re-enable it.
That’s it for now. I hope your found this tip useful.
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