Important files will be gone in February 2024 when Google removes them from Files for Android

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This is a "feature" that was only ever available in India. It still sucks, but that's a pretty rage-baity headline.

Ah yes, only in the country with the world's biggest population and an android market share of 95%

they should have specified in the title anyway.

This needs to be a rule in most communities, country ALWAYS needs to be specified. You can't ask for it to be specified for one country and not the other.

It's also really disingenuous to show a picture of a passport. Because people's only copy of their passport is a JPG inside Files?

I mean I've used the photo of my passport I've had favourited on my phone whenever my passport number/a scan of my passport has been needed for about the last 10 years, so it's at least an inconvenience to just delete them rather than moving them to documents/files or whatever

I was sure I'm getting baited when I clicked the link but it's one of the rare cases when it actually turned out not to be a clickbait.

This feature literally found and isolated "important files" and now they are deleting those files. Just because it was never available in the US doesn't mean it's irrelevant.