Many of us choose to download apps and try them until we find one that meets the expectations we are looking for, so maybe we have downloaded one that we loved, but that for one reason or another we had to remove it from our terminal. Today we can have a lot of these in our teams, so many that sometimes we even forget the name of any of them.
Luckily, this operating system and most of the phones keep a record of the ones we have downloaded and uninstalled, this to avoid the nuisance of these trying each one until we find the one we want. Accessing this is very easy and simple you just have to look in the Play Store or on your device. It should be noted that you can see those that you had in a past device, of course if you access with the same Google account.
With these steps you will see below you will know what are all the applications that you have installed on your mobile device. In addition you will know all the information of these, such as how much space it occupies in memory, how much battery consumption it generates, among other things. In order to visualize them you will have three procedures, so that you can choose the one that makes you easier and more useful according to what you want to see.
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Steps to view the history of applications downloaded on my Android smartphone
Surely you are one of those that has a lot of applications installed on the computer and you don’t know for sure what accounts or what it is called. Before checking them one by one through the toolbox, you can use other more practical ways that will allow you to see them all in one place.
One of these would be from the menu of your mobile phone, from the Android store itself or from an app that will provide you with a list of all those available at that time.
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From the Android phone itself
To see what you have currently available you just have to go to the «Settings» of your device and look for the «Applications» section. Keep in mind that all teams have their own background design, so the steps vary depending on the brand and model you own. However, these do not vary much.
Once there you can choose to see all the applications or only the ones you have installed. You also have the option to view the ones you have uninstalled or include the ones that the operating system brings, so you can see the which is preinstalled on the internal storage system partition.
From here you can see the information of each one , how much space it occupies, how much battery it consumes, what function it fulfills in the device, in the case of those that it brings and others.
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In the same way you can disable them, before executing the latter see what function it has, since it may be necessary for the operation of the mobile.
From the web on Google Play
This is one of the easiest ways to access to view them. You just have to go to the store via the web from your browser. It should be noted that you must sign in previously with the Google account that you use on your Android devices and which you want to know about downloaded and installed apps.
- Enter the Google Play Store.
- In the left sidebar you will click on where it says “Applications”.
- This will display a submenu where different options will be displayed, choose “My applications”.
- Then on the right you will find all those apps that you have installed on any device that you have associated with your Google account . It doesn’t matter if you have already uninstalled it.
- Since you only care about those that you still have available, that is, those installed and those found on your current device, you should go to where it says «All my applications «, click on this to open the menu.
- If you have several devices associated with the same account, they will all appear. Just click on the one you have available or on which you want to see.
- Select the mobile to see all the apps you currently have.
Through an application
If that option seems complicated you have another alternative that may be the simplest. It’s about using a tool, List My Apps, you can get it for free in the Play Store. Basically this helps you discover skills you can’t have on the store’s own platform.
With it you will know when you installed an app for the first time , when it was the last update , the version it has, find applications that generate advertisements and all you want, the ones you have installed or the ones you had before.
To find out how to get them, do the following:
- Download the List My Apps tool.
- When you finish the installation and open it you will see the whole list of the ones you have installed. It does not need permissions to work.
- This allows you to create texts for later use and annotations. Also, if you want you can choose the apps for the platform to create a file with the whole list.
How can I recover those applications that I deleted?
Many times we delete applications from our mobile , either because they consume a lot of memory or because we no longer need it. If this is your case and you want to recover any of these , perhaps the fastest and most effective way is to access the history of downloaded applications.
Google Play is a store that has millions of tools to use, so it keeps track of those you once installed.
- Go to the Play Store app.
- Go to the left sidebar and go to “My apps and games”.
- Finally click on “Library” which is located at the top.
- In this part you will find all those that you installed and uninstalled using your Gmail account . So you can see the ones that you even deleted in any device that you have associated with this one.