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TL;DR
- The Google Play Retailer now helps you to obtain and set up a number of app updates without delay.
- 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 characteristic has been lacking for properly over a decade. Fortuitously, it appears to be like like this functionality has lastly been revived.
9to5Google noticed the Play Retailer’s new-found capability to concurrently obtain and set up a number of app updates. I can verify this selection is on the market on my Pixel 7 Professional — take a look at the screenshot beneath.
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The characteristic 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.” However, 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 fashionable telephones have since switched to sooner inside storage, together with UFS and NVMe applied sciences. So it might make sense for this characteristic to return if storage efficiency was the bottleneck.
The information additionally comes after the Play Retailer gained the flexibility to obtain two new apps without delay again in April. However this restrict has additionally reportedly been raised to a few simultaneous downloads, according to the app updates.
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