Some updates add new features, some fix bugs, and some just add features that should have always been there. Well, it looks like the Play Store will be updated with a feature belonging to the latter group.
And that’s it, it seems incredible, but we still didn’t have a function for Synchronize the applications installed on our Android devicessomething Google fixed, but will definitely improve with the new Discover option.
An option to synchronize applications on all our devices
Yes, I’m aware that this is an issue that doesn’t affect many users, but if you have multiple Android phones (for work or play) or an Android phone, a Chromebook, and a tablet, you must “duplicate” the installation of your favorite applications on all devices.
Relatively recently, Google introduced an option that allowed us to choose on which devices we wanted to install an application already installed on our mobile. For example, in my case, I installed Instagram on a review mobile, but if I enter the Instagram section of the play store, I see that it allows me to install the application on another mobile with my Google account.
It was the function that already existed, that of installing the application on other Android phones/tablets with our Google account.
It’s a system that’s not perfect because I don’t know why this Nubia came out and not, for example, the vivo X80 Pro that I also use daily, but hey. In addition to this function that, as I said, Google needs to polish, it seems that an update is in preparation so as not to have to go application by application.
As user AssembleDebug discovered in Twitterit looks like the company will activate an option for Automatically sync apps across multiple devices. The icon shows a large screen (it can be a tablet or a Chromebook), but also the mobile and a clock (we imagine that with WearOS).
And that’s the new feature, in the “Manage apps and device” section. On the left, my screen. In the center and on the right, the new feature of the Play Store.
And, as shown by the user himself, the description of the feature specifies that “apps you install on this device will also be installed on your synced devices”. So it seems that if we download Instagram on our main mobile and you have other linked android devices, the application will be automatically installed on them.
At the moment we’ve tested with a Motorola ThinkPhone and a Pixel 6a and the option doesn’t appear, so it may be a beta or an update that’s rolling out in phases.
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