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How to See Recently Deleted Apps on Android

Don’t sweat it if you find yourself in a bind trying to recover an app deleted from your Android device. Recovering apps is much simpler than recovering photos and other data.

There are many reasons why you might need to recover app data that you deleted. Often, people delete apps only to find out they need the app again but can’t remember the name. There are also cases where apps are deleted accidentally by the owner or someone else with access to the phone. You also may have had to perform a factory reset, which deletes all the apps you’ve installed on your device.

Whatever the reason, this article shows you the options you have to view recently deleted Google Play apps and possibly recover them and the data they held.

How to View and Recover Deleted Apps using Google Play

The most straightforward way to get access to your deleted apps is already on your device. The Google Play app keeps a record of the applications you’ve downloaded and allows you to see your app history. Follow these simple instructions.

1. Open the Google Play app on your device.
2. Tap the “Hamburger icon” (☰) to the left of the search bar—you can also swipe right anywhere on the screen to access the menu.
3. In the menu, tap on “My Apps & Games,” on some Android devices it might say “Manage apps & device” instead.
   
4. From here, select the “Library” tab at the top of the screen which shows all previous and current downloaded apps.
   

5. From there, navigate the list to find the app you want to recover. You can sort the list “alphabetically” or “by date” to help with your search. Organizing by date displays the most recent apps first.

It’s important to point out that the list of applications applies to your Google account and all your devices, not just the one you’re using now. Every app you’ve ever downloaded on any device (unless you deleted some) displays in the list, so it’s a handy tool.

Another important note to remember is that a paid app is usable on any Google device, not just the purchasing device. If you use the Google Play Library method to recover apps you’ve purchased, you won’t have to pay for them again.

How to View and Recover Deleted Apps using Phonerescue

If you need to dig deeper into your device’s history, PhoneRescue is a robust recovery tool for Android devices. The software does much more than display your lost app data. It can also restore a variety of deleted content. The maker claims that it works on just about any Android device. The software is free to try, but you will eventually have to buy a license to continue using it.

1. First, download PhoneRescue onto your desktop computer. You read that right; this software works from your computer.
2. Launch the application, and you’ll see some quick tips on how to use it.
3. Use your phone’s USB cable to connect your Android device to the PC. You’ll get prompted to perform some simple tasks like enable “USB debugging” and “rooting your phone.” The software will walk you through it pretty quickly.
4. Once the preliminaries get completed, choose what types of data you want to recover. There is a wide range of file types that PhoneRescue can access. However, you want to ensure that you check off “App Documents” on the menu.
5. From there, click “Next,” and you’ll get served a complete report on what got recovered. The software allows you to recover data directly to your device, which is an excellent time-saver. You might find some of your other data that got mixed up, but you should see the apps you’ve deleted.

How to View and Recover Deleted Apps using the Galaxy Store

If you don’t have a typical Android phone or tablet but have a Samsung Galaxy phone or tablet instead, you can find deleted apps using the Galaxy Store. Assuming you’ve signed in to your Galaxy account, you may find your missing app there. Here’s how to do it.

1. Perform a quick search for the “Galaxy Store” by swiping up from the bottom of your phone or selecting the “Apps”icon. Type “Galaxy Store” in the search bar and choose the app.
2. Now, tap on the “hamburger icon” (☰) in the upper left-hand corner. To make the search process faster, toggle the “Show installed apps” option off.
3. 3. Scroll through the list of apps and tap the download icon to recover your missing application.

What to Do if All Apps Went Missing

The Android OS (Operating System) can be a strange and peculiar thing. If all your apps randomly went missing, there’s usually a handful of reasons why. The first is that you could’ve somehow accidentally deleted them all.

1. To check for accidental deletion, set your phone to “safe mode.” On many Android devices, hold down the physical power button until the power off option appears on the screen, then long-press Power off and choose
   Safe Mode when it appears.

Your phone will restart. If all of your apps reappear, you have a software problem. Most of the time, this situation is due to a Launcher. While in Safe Mode, go into your phone’s settings and search for any launchers. If it’s one you want to keep, clear the cache and data, then restart your phone. If it’s one you didn’t intentionally download, uninstall it. After doing this, all of your apps should reappear upon restarting your phone.

Accidentally Deleted the Google Play Store

It isn’t completely unheard of that the Google Play Store suddenly goes missing from your Android device. Fortunately, it’s still there. The Google Play Store is a pre-loaded app, so you can’t completely uninstall it from your phone.

1. All you need to do is head to Settings on your phone and tap on Apps or Applications, depending on the Android version you’re running.
2. Search for and select Google Play Store in the list of apps on your phone.
3. Next, tap Enable. Your Google Play Store will reappear on your home screen.

The most common reason for the Play Store disappearing is when you’ve disabled it on your device. By enabling it, you’ve brought it back to life.

Finding Deleted Android Apps FAQs

I had an APK, but I can’t find it now. What’s happening?

APKs are Android Package Kits or files that help you install apps. Many Android users download APKs because the apps aren’t released yet, or they provide more functionality and freedom than the monitored apps in the Google Play Store. Unfortunately, some apps promote illegal pirating activities, which ends with getting taken off the app store. If you’re trying to recover an APK, it’s best to do a Google or DuckDuckGo search for the missing application or one similar. Once located, download it and set it up just like you would any other APK file.

How can I locate all Android deleted apps, not just Play Store?

Although you can use any methods above to download all your Android apps, it would be time-consuming. Your best bet is to check for a backup and make a full system recovery. This method has some risks because you’ll need to factory reset your device, which means you could lose everything, so check for a backup first.

Head over to “Settings” on your device and tap on “Backup” (this may vary depending on your manufacturer). Samsung users can look for the Samsung Cloud backup, and LG users should have a similar option. Regardless of the device, every Android user should have a Google backup. Click on the backup, verify it is a recent date and that it stored your apps, photos, documents, contacts, and anything else necessary. Now, you can do a factory reset and restore your phone to normal with all apps intact.

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In closing, it’s a good idea to set your device’s settings to back up your data on Google’s servers. It will make lost apps much easier to find during any problematic events in the future.

Did you accidentally delete a critical system app? Are you trying to recover an app and previous files associated with it? Feel free to share your thoughts and experiences in the comments below.

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How to see all the apps you’ve ever downloaded on your Android device in 4 simple steps

Even if you uninstall an app from your Android phone, it’s never «lost.» You can always reinstall it again later for free, because the Google Play Store remembers your entire purchase history.

If you’ve uninstalled an app — maybe to free up space on your phone, or because you didn’t think you’d use it again — it’s easy to find it again in your app library and reinstall it.

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How to see all the apps you’ve ever downloaded on an Android phone

1. Start the Play Store app.

2. Tap the three horizontal lines at the top right of the screen and then, in the menu, tap «My apps & games.»

Here, you’ll have two options.

3. At the top of the screen, tap «Installed.» As the name suggests, this is a list of all the apps that are currently installed on this phone.

4. At the top of the screen, tap «Library.» This is a list of all the apps, both free and paid, that you’ve ever downloaded from the Google Play Store, on any phone that’s associated with your Google account, which aren’t currently installed on this phone. Here, you have two more options:

• To reinstall an app on this phone, tap «Install.»
• You can also permanently remove the app from your account. To do this, tap the «X» to the right of the Install button.

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Package visibility in Android 11

On Android 10 and earlier, apps could query the full list of installed apps on the system using methods like queryIntentActivities() . In most cases, this is far broader access than is necessary for an app to implement its functionality. With our ongoing focus on privacy, we’re introducing changes on how apps can query and interact with other installed apps on the same device on Android 11. In particular, we’re bringing better scoped access to the list of apps installed on a given device.

To provide better accountability for access to installed apps on a device, apps targeting Android 11 (API level 30) will see a filtered list of installed apps by default. In order to access a broader list of installed apps, an app can specify information about apps they need to query and interact with directly. This can be done by adding a element in the Android manifest.

For most common scenarios, including any implicit intents started with startActivity() , you won’t have to change anything! For other scenarios, like opening a specific third party application directly from your UI, developers will have to explicitly list the application package names or intent filter signatures like this:

If you use Custom Tabs to open URLs, you might be calling resolveActivity() and queryIntentActivities() in order to launch a non-browser app if one is available for the URL. In Android 11 there’s a better way to do this, which avoids the need to query other apps: the FLAG_ACTIVITY_REQUIRE_NON_BROWSER intent flag. When you call startActivity() with this flag, an ActivityNotFoundException will be thrown if a browser would have been launched. When this happens, you can open the URL in a Custom Tab instead.

In rare cases, your app might need to query or interact with all installed apps on a device, independent of the components they contain. To allow your app to see all other installed apps, Android 11 introduces the QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission. In an upcoming Google Play policy update, look for guidelines for apps that need the QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission.

When targeting API level 30 and adding a element to your app, use the latest available release of the Android Gradle plugin. Soon we’ll be releasing updates to older Android Gradle plugin versions to add support for this element. You can find more information and use cases about Package Visibility in the developer documentation.

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How To Download and See All Your Android Files

One of the many cool aspects of Android is the fact that you can access all aspects of the operating system. Unlike iOS, you can see all system files and have access to every file and folder on the device. If you’re new to the operating system and want to know how to upload, download and see all your Android files, this tutorial is for you.

Android has its own file manager but there are also third-party file managers to make life easier. Since the native file manager is a part of every Android device, we’ll use that in our examples.

How to see your Android files

The easiest way to see your Android files is to access device storage on the handset. There are two ways that you can do this: From the app drawer or from the Settings.

Access ‘My Files’ From the App Drawer

If you believe the best path is the one of least resistance, this is the method for you. Accessing all of the files on your Android device is really simple:

1. Open your devices’ App drawer – Depending on the version of Android software you’re running you can click on the home screen icon that has several dots or you can swipe up on the screen.
   
2. Use the search bar to quickly locate the ‘File Manager’ app.
   
3. Or, locate it among your other apps and tap on it.
   
4. Select the folders to access the files you’d like to view.
   

Access Files From the Settings

This method isn’t exactly the fastest way to get your files, but it does let you see various file types quickly.

1. Navigate to Settings, Storage & USB, and Internal storage – Because the Settings vary depending on your manufacturer, use the search bar within ‘Settings’ and type ‘Storage’ to find it quickly.
   
2. Select any one of the options that appear. For the purposes of this article, we’ll select ‘Images.’
   
3. Browse the folders selecting the one you’d like to view.
   

Using a Computer

You can also view files while your phone is connected to your computer. This works on both Mac and Windows computers.

1. Plug your Android phone into your computer with a USB cable.
   
2. Set it for File Transfer if the cable doesn’t default to it. Wait for Windows to detect it.
   
3. Open the phone in Windows Explorer and browser as you would any other hard drive.
   

Windows treats Android devices as external storage so you can drag, drop, add, move and delete files and folders as you see fit. The only limitation is that Android can only manipulate one file or folder at a time.

How Android Orders Files

While you can see and manipulate Android files in Explorer, the file system is not the same as in Windows. Device Storage is the internal memory of your device. Portable or SD Card is external storage, the SD card attached to your handset, if you have one installed.

The SD card can be configured to store images, videos, games and other data. Not all apps can be loaded onto an SD card so if something isn’t there check Device Storage.

Device Storage

Android core files will always be stored within Device Storage. Many apps, games and programs will also be stored there too. Within Device Storage you will see folders created by the Android OS.

DCIM is the camera and is where your images will be stored. By default this will be on Device Storage but can be configured to store on SD Card. Download should speak for itself, as should Movies, Music, Pictures and all the other folders.

SD Card

If your device has an SD card it will appear beside Device Storage both on the phone and in Windows Explorer. You can browse and explore it in exactly the same way. In Windows 10 it may display as Card, External Storage, or SD Card depending on the card type and your phone.

You explore the SD Card the same as any Windows File. If you see a DCIM folder, it means your phone is configured to save images to the card instead of internal storage. The same for Music, Movies, Playlists, and other files. As mentioned, not all apps and files can be saved into external storage so you may not see everything you’re expecting.

Upload and Download Android Files

Now you know how to see your Android files, you should be able to move, add and change them too. Uploading and downloading Android files is just a matter of dragging and dropping them in Windows or selecting the menu option on your phone.

On an Android device:

1. Navigate to Settings, Storage & USB, and Internal storage.
   
2. Select the file or folder you want to move by pressing down on the icon and holding it until it says selected.
3. Select ‘Move’ or ‘Copy’ from the bottom of the screen.
   
4. Select the destination and confirm the move or copy.
   

Third party file managers

The Android file manager is quite capable but isn’t the easiest to use or to navigate. If you don’t like it much you can download and install third-party file managers from the Google Play Store. Search File Manager and choose an app you like the look of and that has good reviews. Download and install and then use as default. Most installation wizards take you through replacing the stock file manager so you will be in good hands.

Do you use a third party file manager for Android? Which do you use? Tell us about your experience below!

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