One of the best features of the Play Store is remote installation of apps. If multiple devices are signed in to the same Google Account, you can select one of them for installation using the Play Store Install button. Once you find an app you like, you can install it on your phone, watch, TV, tablet, laptop, or car, all from one device. So it’s no surprise that you’d want to be able to uninstall apps from all your devices.
New features coming to the Play Store will allow you to do just that. You can uninstall remotely from any device on your account. The first sign of this feature is in the latest Android patch notes, which list “new features to help uninstall apps on connected devices.” This doesn’t seem to have been enabled yet, but news site TheSpAndroid has a photo of the feature that shows what to expect. When you open the Play Store and uninstall the app, you’ll see a list of devices just like you currently have it installed on.
It may look different, but under the hood, all installations from the Play Store are done via Android’s push notification system. By default, when you press the Play Store install button, Google is asked to push the app to your current device, but the target device for remote app installation does not need to be turned on and unlocked. there is no. Like any push notification, once your device connects to the internet and recognizes the push, it wakes up and takes the necessary action. Normally, it would “show a message and play a beep,” but in this case it doesn’t do that. It’s “Install an app”. Google has been gradually introducing the remote installation feature to the world for the first time on his Android Market (now Play Store) website in 2011. It took him 11 years before a similar feature was introduced in the Play Store’s phone app.
Uninstallation can also be done via the push notification system. Today’s news marks the first time this feature has been rolled out to users, but remote uninstallation has been around as long as remote installation. Google can trigger the remote uninstall feature without your consent, and in some cases uses this feature to remotely uninstall malware from all Play Store devices in bulk. Users finally have a button to do this themselves.