Google tells Android app developers to cool it on memory use, or else
RAMaggedon is coming for software now.
by Allison Johnson
Aug 27, 2026, 6:33 PM UTC
Allison Johnson is a senior reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview.
Google will start policing memory-hungry Android apps as a direct response to the RAM crisis. Spotted by TechCrunch, the company yesterday published a memo addressing the Play Store’s role in enforcing new memory-usage restrictions. The post emphasizes the importance of meeting new memory usage limits for apps, in order “to help developers navigate industry-wide hardware constraints and Android’s broader memory limits,” it says. And failing to meet the new memory restrictions will come with consequences.
The memory limitations were first introduced with Android 17, appearing first on Pixel phones. It’s probably no coincidence that the base configurations of the Pixel 11 Pro...
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