This could be done from the web, although only recently has the Google Play application allowed us to send the installation to the rest of our devices such as tablets or other mobile phones. Now something just as important is about to happen: the remote app uninstallation.
In other words, in addition to being able to use your mobile phone to download applications directly to your tablet, you will soon also be able to uninstall apps on your other devices without needing to touch them. Google said it would arrive with Google Play version 38.3, although that hasn’t happened, but at least we now know exactly how it will work.
Install and uninstall from one mobile to another
Imagine you have ten Android phones and tablets and for some reason you need to install the same app on all of them. Instead of doing it one by one, you can order installation on each of them from a single device, with remote application installation. Basically on Google Play you choose on which device you want to install an application and Android takes care of the rest: when the device is turned on and connected, the application will be downloaded.
Now imagine you need to uninstall an app from these ten devices. The only option we had to do this is to do it manually in each of them. Fortunately, we will soon have the opportunity to uninstall apps from other devices on which we use the same account the Google.
Thanks to TheSpAndroid, we now have the first screenshots of what the process will look like, while we wait for Google to activate the feature generally, as promised last month. This will be done from the section Manage apps and devicesin the tab Manage.
Screenshots of TheSpAndroid
The good news is that in this tab we will find a new drop-down menu from which we can choose which device do we want to manage, so the list that will load will be the applications of each of them and not necessarily that of the current device. That is, we will see the applications installed, for example, on our tablet.
This way we can check the box of one of these applications and then press the uninstall button to delete it from one of our devices other than the current one. By doing so, Google will take care of the rest and the next time the device is turned on and connected it will perform the uninstallation without us needing to press any buttons.
With this novelty we will have a bit of MDM (device management) integrated into our Google Play, being able to add or remove applications on all our mobile phones and tablets where we use the same account, very useful for those who have many devices. We still don’t know when Google will generally enable it.
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