Future Android phones will ship with fewer Google apps

In addition, it possibly made Samsung more conscious about the apps it installs on its phones, which could be why the large majority of apps in the company’s recent Galaxy smartphone offerings could be disabled.

OEMs will still be required to install crucial apps such as Gmail, Maps, Google Search, Chrome and the Play Store. Manufacturers and carriers alike often load up our smartphones with apps that they’d like us to check out, and at best we can quickly uninstall these apps and move on.

According to a new set of rules defined by Google, your next Android smartphone will ship with slightly less bloatware compared to what is being offered right now. If you are one of the lucky ones, you may notice a new update has reached the Android Auto app, upgrading it to version 1.2. The same thing that is happening with Android 6.0 M, the Google Play Store 5.8.11 APK and a host of other Google based applications, among them Google Hangouts.

These four apps won’t give you back a huge amount of storage space, but it could make a minor difference to battery life as you’ll have less random software potentially restarting for some reason.

This should mean that future phones that come with stock Android will be a lot less cluttered by unwanted apps before you even use them. For a Google Android device, however, hardware makers agree to Google’s licensing rules, which dictate certain Google apps to be pre-installed and shown prominently.