One of the worst things about buying a new phone is wrangling whatever apps the manufacturer has installed for you. Often it’s stuff you don’t want, and it’s rare to be able to completely erase them from your phone. Which means they can sit there taking up resources you’d rather allocate to other things. Android 14 may have a solution on the way.
Noted Android sleuth Mishaal Rahman has discovered that Android 14 has a feature specifically designed to combat pre-installed bloatware. It doesn’t let you erase the apps from your phone, which would be the ideal solution, but it looks like it will reduce the resources those apps take up — particularly memory and battery.
