Google to bring App Hibernation feature with Android 12

It’s been a little over five months since Google released the Android 11 and the OS is steadily making its way to millions of phones around the world. Now, the company has shifted focus to the next major update Android 12 for 2021.

Folks at XDA Developers Forum have chanced upon new source codes submitted to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). They are understood to be related to Android 12 and the software experts have found a new feature App Hibernation Service.

“System service that manages app hibernation state, a state apps can enter that means they are not being actively used and can be optimized for storage. The actual policy for determining if an app should hibernate is managed by PermissionController code”– reads the feature description.