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TL;DR
- The Google Play Retailer now allows you to obtain and set up a number of app updates directly.
- As much as three app updates will be concurrently downloaded and put in from the Play Retailer.
The Google Play Retailer (previously the Android App Market) used to let customers obtain a number of app updates, however this function has been lacking for properly over a decade. Fortuitously, it seems like this functionality has lastly been revived.
9to5Google noticed the Play Retailer’s new-found means to concurrently obtain and set up a number of app updates. I can affirm this selection is obtainable on my Pixel 7 Professional — try the screenshot under.
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The function doesn’t help you obtain and set up greater than three app updates on the similar time, with any extra app updates within the queue marked as “pending.” Nonetheless, that is nonetheless a significant enchancment over solely having the ability to obtain and set up one app replace at a time.
It’s unclear why Google eliminated this selection within the first place. Hypothesis on the time means that smartphone storage again then delivered sluggish write speeds. Many trendy telephones have since switched to quicker inside storage, together with UFS and NVMe applied sciences. So it will make sense for this function to return if storage efficiency was the bottleneck.
The information additionally comes after the Play Retailer gained the flexibility to obtain two new apps directly again in April. However this restrict has additionally reportedly been raised to 3 simultaneous downloads, consistent with the app updates.
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