Google Play Store is the official app store for Android devices, but Google’s repository isn’t perfect, and it can still improve in aspects such as managing installed apps. Sometimes updating several apps at the same time to the latest available version can take longer than you might imagine.
Now, Play Store has taken a very important step that will make managing our installed applications more efficient: the app store now allows updating multiple apps simultaneously, so the process is now much faster.
Play Store now allows you to update two or more apps simultaneously, something that was not possible until now
Smartphone users sometimes accumulate a lot of apps on their devices, as we constantly come across some interesting app that is temporarily available for free or with a very tempting offer, and we download it. All of these apps will be updated over time, so we often find ourselves with dozens of pending updates when we enter the Google Play Store.
Until now, the Play Store could only update one app at a time. After starting an update, the platform couldn’t start downloading another one until the first one was finished. And when we have many apps waiting to be updated, this becomes a nuisance.
Google Play Store can now update multiple apps at once. In my tests I was able to see how this works, finding that the platform can download up to three updates at the same time.
Left: Two updates downloading simultaneously and one update being installed. Right: Three app updates downloading simultaneously.
Last March, Google Play Store started allowing users to download multiple apps at the same time, but this is only possible when downloading an app for the first time, and not for updates. Now, it is possible to perform multiple downloads simultaneously for both new installations and app updates on our devices.
This feature is now available for all Android mobile and tablet users, following the latest Google Play Store update. From now on, we will no longer waste so much time waiting for the Google repository to download and install all pending updates.