Ice Box - Apps freezer

Ruoxin He

About this app

Ice Box - Freeze and hide apps rarely used.

If your device is already rooted, you can install and use it directly.
If there is no root, you need to go through a very complicating operations to enable Ice Box.
Please read the full description before making decision.

Non Root Setup: http://iceboxdoc.catchingnow.com/Device%20Owner%20(Non%20Root)%20Setup

After setting up with the help of computer Ice Box will grant the "Device Owner" permission to freeze/defrost apps.
Please do not grant "Device Administrator" permission manually on phone and it will not work.
You can uninstall IceBox in its settings anytime if you do not want to use it anymore.


Ice Box is a box to freeze and store the apps you rarely used.

Apps in box will be HIDDEN from launcher and won't be able to steal your battery or cellular data in background. You can easily launch them from Ice Box, just like launch from a home screen folder. They'll be frozen automatically after screen lock or back to launcher and can't do anything in background.

Long press single icon, or drag to select multiple icons to:
- Run App.
- Freeze/Defrost app.
- View App's detail.
- Open on Google Play.
- Uninstall.

Support launcher shortcut:
- Freeze All Apps
- Freeze All + Lock Screen
- Defrost and Run Specific App

More Feature:
- Fingerprint lock.
- Notification shortcut.
- Android quick shortcut.
- Double click shortcut to freeze.

Ratings and reviews

WARNING --- Steals data from clipboard! --- Opened it and phone showed a toast that "Ice Box pasted from Clipboard" -- Completely unprompted or unrelated to any action. All I did was open it and it immediately accessed the clipboard.

Requires a subscription for real use. Free version will only freeze 5 apps, which of course is inadequate so free version is just try before you buy. "Buy" means a monthly subscription. I don't mind paying a fee to buy a good app, but I refuse to ever pay a subscription, so this app is out of the running for me. Pro but "world" developer has materials in Chinese or Japanese and broken English, so there's that. It did run OK for me. I don't have root but was able to follow the instructions.

No longer works. I use it a lot for probably a couple years now. I like it. But now, Android has started to just say the app is not responding and asks me to wait or close. I had this happen for the first time a week ago. I had to completely uninstall and reinstall and had to recreate all my shortcuts on my launcher. Super annoying. I don't want to bother reinstalling. Also, it's not as though it can't get root. Root works fine on my phone with every other app. IceBox isn't even requesting root.

What’s new

3.30.13
- Fixed UI layout issues on foldable devices
- Adapted to Xiaomi's "Read app list" permission
- Wireless debugging no longer requires disabling VPN for subsequent pairings

3.30.10
- Support 16KB page size
3.30.9
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
3.30.8
- Add a video tutorial for wireless debugging.
- Fix an issue where the "IceBox is opening xxx" permission pop-up frequently appeared on some devices.