How to check on Google TV if an app has a pending update

On devices with Google TV, the Automatic updates Since play storeso that apps update without user intervention, allowing devices and TVs to always have the most recent versions of apps installed, but we won’t always have an updated app at all times .

The Play Store periodically checks if there are new versions to update, so there is a period of time during which an update may be available that fixes a bug

It is important that it has not yet been installed on our device, and for those cases in which we find that an application fails, it is interesting check if a new update is available without waiting to the fact that it is the system itself that detects this new version after hours or days.

Check if an app has an update available

Checking on Google TV if a new update is available for an application is very simple, even if it is a feature that is not well known to some users. To see if an application has an update available, we must select the application with the remote control and hold down the center crosshead button

to display its options menu.

In this menu we will have to click on “See the details”. This option will take us directly to the app listing in Play Storeindicating if a new version is available for update. So we won’t have to wait for it to update automatically and enjoy its most recent version in seconds with its novelties and bug fixes.

Checking for available updates

We can also immediately check the number of updates we have for all our applications if we do not want to proceed one by one. For this we must access the Play Store that Google TV hides. We enter our profile, we go to “Manage apps and games” then to “Updates”. There, in addition to seeing which applications have a new version available, we can update all of a sudden.