Have you discovered that one of your essential apps is missing and you don’t know how it disappeared from your Android phone? App loss is more common than you might imagine, sometimes due to human error and others due to maintenance operations and various outages, but don’t worry because there is a solution: we we’ll tell you Why are apps disappearing from your phone and how can you fix it?.
An app can be deleted and disappear from your phone for various reasons: you accidentally deleted it (in my case, this is the most common reason), malware, you did a factory reset, something went wrong while transferring files between devices, among others.
To recover your applications, the first thing you have to do is go to the Google Play Store and, in the upper right corner, tap on your profile circle. Look in the menu for the option ‘Manage apps and device‘. Once inside, click ‘Manage‘.
This page is most interesting, since it shows you if updates are available, which apps you have installed and which you don’t, although this last point is not visible to the naked eye. In fact you have to touch ‘installed‘ to make them appear. You will now be able to see the apps you have already installed, including the ones you removed.
Now all you have to do is carefully scroll through the reading of the ones you want to recover and tap on each of them to open its page in the Google Play Store and reinstall.
What if I want to install multiple apps at the same time? Easy and fast: mark the tick of their respective boxes and now press the down arrow in the upper area. So you can get them all back.
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