Storage Files app deleted

[abhineet_sinha]

In my unrooted Asus6z, firmware WW_18.0610.2101.12, i thought it as a duplicate of file manager app and accidently deleted the Files app from the app list. In the settings can not access files in the storage. Can it be recovered as It is not on the google play store.

[abhineet_sinha]

That means Files app is not a built-in app anymore in Android 11. After the upgrade it appeared next to File Manager with similar icon in my app list. Previously it was not there. I mistook it for a third party app and uninstalled it.

[skylerwolfe]

_jis_

https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/comment/147964#Comment_147964

In Android 10, the Files app is part of the ROM and can't be uninstalled, I still have the A10.

Are you saying the opposite is true in Android 11? Are there more of these applications that a user would lose irrevocably after a factory reset because they are not part of the ROM?

App Files in A10:

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Here it is in A11.

[_jis_]

skylerwolfe

https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/comment/147976#Comment_147976

Here it is in A11.

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This is clean installed A11, or A11 update over previous A10?

[skylerwolfe]

abhineet.sinha

https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/comment/147899#Comment_147899

You suggest it might have hidden in my launcher. So i checked in the hide app option of the launcher. But the Files app is not there. I have also checked in the disabled apps option inside settings but it is not there either. I am sure it got uninstalled not hidden or disabled. Will Clearing data in recovery mode reset it. Can the .apk of the Files app be shared, is that an option?

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I'll PM you a link for the apk

[skylerwolfe]

_jis_

https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/comment/147988#Comment_147988

This is clean installed A11, or A11 update over previous A10?

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It is the latter.