2025/10/21

New ‘Jam Saves’ feature for Files by Google spotted in development

Key Points of This Article

It has been confirmed from the in-app code of the Files by Google app for Android (version v1.8986.821278080.0-release update) that code related to a new feature in development, codenamed “Jam Saves (jam_saves),” has been added.
Specific details and functionality are still unknown.
The presence of “collection” in the related code suggests it will be a feature for saving and managing files and web content as “collections.”

Around Tuesday, October 21, 2025, the version v1.8986.821278080.0-release update for the “Files by Google” file manager app for Android began to roll out.

Upon analyzing the in-app code of this v1.8986.821278080.0-release update for the Files by Google app for Android, we have confirmed the addition of code related to a new feature in development, codenamed “Jam Saves (jam_saves).”

<string name="jam_saves_collection_subtitle_when_count_between_2_and_99">...</string>
<string name="jam_saves_collection_subtitle_when_count_equal_to_0">...</string>
<string name="jam_saves_collection_subtitle_when_count_equal_to_1">...</string>
<string name="jam_saves_collection_subtitle_when_count_greater_than_99">...</string>
<string name="jam_saves_item_subtitle_domain_name_with_parent_collection">...</string>
<string name="jam_saves_item_subtitle_generic">...</string>
<string name="jam_saves_item_subtitle_generic_with_parent_collection">...</string>

The specific details of this new “Jam Saves” feature for the Files by Google app for Android are still unknown. However, the presence of the word “collection” in the related code suggests that it will be a feature for saving and managing files and web content as “collections.”