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The Google Play Retailer is rolling out an auto-open characteristic for newly downloaded apps.
It would open an app 5 seconds after the set up is full.
Google is offering a toggle to show this characteristic on or off.
Google has rolled out a number of modifications to the Play Retailer this 12 months, some helpful and a few annoying, like a new search tab instead of a search. In June, the corporate started engaged on one other annoying Play Store change that would auto-launch apps after installing them. Additional indicators of the feature’s impending release popped up in early September. And now, just a few weeks later, Google is reportedly rolling out this Play Retailer change, giving the choice to auto-open apps 5 seconds after downloading them.
The subsequent time you begin downloading an app from the Play Retailer, it can present a Activate Auto-open toggle beneath the Cancel and Open buttons. If enabled, the toggle description will change to Routinely open after set up. After this, any app you obtain from the Play Retailer will routinely open 5 seconds after the set up. The Play Retailer may also present a notification with a progress bar and a 5-second countdown to mirror this.
Fortunately, if, like me, you discover this characteristic annoying, you’ll be completely satisfied to know that it’s disabled by default. The change presumably solely applies to the machine on which the choice is enabled; it doesn’t prolong to different Android units linked to the identical Google account. Android skilled Mishaal Rahman was tipped about this transformation and posted about it on X.
This Play Retailer change ought to see a wider rollout quickly
Many Android customers replied to Mishaal’s put up, confirming that the change has been stay for them for just a few days or even weeks now. Regardless of working the newest Play Retailer construct, I do not see the choice on my Samsung Galaxy S23 Extremely or Xiaomi 14 Extremely. So, even in the event you do not see the Auto-open toggle but, it ought to go stay in your Android machine within the coming days.
Google has already rolled out a Play Retailer change that reminds users about unopened apps 24 hours after putting in them. These modifications counsel the corporate is making an attempt to handle an issue the place customers set up apps from the Play Retailer however overlook to launch them afterward.
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