There are updates that add new features, others fix bugs, and others simply add features that should have always been there. Well, it looks like the Play Store will be updated with a feature belonging to this last group.
And it is that, it seems incredible, but we still did not have a function for Synchronize the applications installed on our Android devicessomething that Google has been remedying, but that will definitely improve with the new option discovered.
An option to synchronize applications on all our devices
Yes, I am aware that this is a problem that does not affect many users, but if you have several Android phones (either for work or leisure) or one Android phone, a chromebook and a tablet, you must “duplicate” the installation of your favorite applications on all devices.
Relatively recently, Google implemented an option that allowed us to choose on which devices we wanted to install an app already installed on our mobile. For example, in my case I have Instagram installed on a review mobile, but if I enter the Instagram section in the Play Store, I can see that it lets me install the app on another mobile with my Google account.
It is a system that is not perfect because I don’t know why Nubia comes out and not, for example, the vivo X80 Pro which I also use daily, but hey. In addition to that function that, as I say, Google must polish, it seems that an update is being prepared so that we do not have to go application by application.
As user AssembleDebug has discovered in Twitterit seems that the company will enable an option to sync apps automatically 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, as the user himself shows, the feature description 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 Android devices linked, the app will automatically be installed on them.
For now, we have tried a Motorola ThinkPhone and a Pixel 6a and the option does not appear, so it may be a beta or an update that is going in phases.
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