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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2015
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Christopher S. Linn, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Eric S. Brown, Los Altos, CA (US);
Eric O. Carlson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cindy M. Barrett, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jonathan M. Grynspan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Donald M. Firlik, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cameron S. Birse, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothee Geoghegan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a technique for downgrading applications to placeholder applications in order to free up storage space in a user device. Based on a variety of heuristics, a number of installed applications are identified as candidates for a downgrade. The downgrading of the identified applications involves creating a placeholder application for each of the identified applications. The identified applications are temporarily deleted while keeping the user data associated with the applications intact and the placeholder applications are installed.