Google appears to be working on a new trash bin (or recycle bin, if you go with the Windows naming convention) for Android. Except, the feature isn’t really new, and likely won’t see significant use.

On Android 12, the company is testing out a Trash Bin feature for deleting files. According to XDA Developers, the spotted code suggests Google may surface Android's hidden Recycle Bin/Trash ...

So the trash feature already exists in Android 11, but few apps seem to be using it; and even if they did, there’s not yet a way to actually recover trashed files. In Android 12, the settings ...

Free app Dumpster is the Android equivalent of the Recycle Bin for Windows or Trash Can for Mac. Just like on Windows, if you delete a file, it will go straight to Dumpster where you can restore ...

Soon, we could expect Google's Android 12 to have a new set of features like Trash Bin and Auto-App Translation which could benefit both users and developers.

These changes, which Google calls "Scoped Storage", significantly limit the amount of storage access an app can get by default, it added. While certain apps like files managers can request broad ...

San Francisco, April 18 (IANS) Google is reportedly working on a feature, called Trash Bin, for deleting files on Android 12.

While certain apps like files managers can request broad access to a device's storage, other apps have to use alternative APIs to add, open, edit, or delete files on the storage.