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TL;DR
- With Android 16 Developer Preview 2, Google Keep is now a system app, that means it can’t be uninstalled.
- You’ll nonetheless be capable of disable the app, although, placing it in a dormant state.
- The choice to make Google Keep a system app appears to be in preparation for an upcoming lock display screen notes characteristic.
Google Keep, the corporate’s free note-taking app, has been promoted to a system app on Android 16 Developer Preview 2, that means it can’t be uninstalled by regular means. This transfer indicators that Keep would possibly play a much bigger position in Android 16 with extra highly effective options.
System apps are apps that come pre-installed with the OS to carry out important capabilities on a tool. These apps embrace key companies like settings, messaging, calling, system administration, and extra. Users can solely uninstall system apps by rooting their units (gaining superuser entry), however these apps may be disabled to release storage or scale back background processes.
If you’re on Android 15 or an older model, you’ll discover that Google Keep isn’t a system app and may be simply uninstalled with the same old strategies. However, with Android 16 Developer Preview 2, Keep is graduating to grow to be a core app, shifting to a protected system partition from the place it can’t be eliminated with out root entry.
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The solely motive we expect Keep is changing into a system app is that Google is likely to be planning to grant it deeper system entry and performance, permitting it to carry out some essential duties or combine with different core Android options.
It’s additionally potential Google is making the change in preparation for an upcoming lock display screen note-taking characteristic. We beforehand previewed this characteristic and anticipated it to debut with Android 15, but the Keep lock display screen shortcut remains to be unavailable on Android.
