The Google Play Store is the biggest major app store in the world, which is unsurprising since it is the first-party option for the biggest mobile OS in the world. Over the lifetime of your smartphone, you’re probably going to download several hundreds of apps from the Play Store.
However, one thing the Play Store doesn’t have (though it used to), is the ability to download or update more than one app at a time. You’d have to wait for one app to finish before the next stepped in — inefficient if you have like 50 apps to update. Thankfully, that has finally changed and you can install two updates at once now.
The Google Play Store Makes It Possible For More Than One App Update To Download Simultaneously
Today is a big day for people like me who walk over to the Play Store to update apps on an almost weekly basis. A lot of the time, I see that I’ve got about 20 or so apps that need to be updated to their latest version — as a tech guy, you can’t find me intentionally using outdated software on my smartphone. Typically, it can be annoying updating these apps, because even with fast internet, I have to watch them update one by one.
That’s finally going to come to an end, as Google has rolled out a change to the Google Play Store that lets more than one application update at the same time. This might sound relatively minor, but in my eyes, it is pretty huge, and quite honestly, something the Play Store should have had support for a long time ago.
I’ve been able to test it out on my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra and I can update two apps at the same time while a third even installs. However, I’ve seen that other people are able to update up to three apps at the exact same time, which makes it even quicker than I reckoned at first. This is one of those updates that is fantastic for convenience, provided you have the kind of internet speed to take perfect advantage of it.
This Feature Used To Be On Android But Has Been Gone For Over 10 Years
The thing is, I understand if you’re looking at this supposed “new” change to the Google Play Store and scratching your head. If you’ve been on the Android operating system from close to the very beginning, then it is entirely understandable that you might have seen this feature to download multiple app updates simultaneously before.
That’s because it used to be an Android feature, but for some reason, Google took it away in the early 2000s. There was never a solid explanation as to why this happened, beyond speculation that there was no point considering the slower storage of the time — it limited how quickly you could write files to storage.
These days, with 5G and fast UFS storage in smartphones, there shouldn’t be anything limiting downloading multiple app updates for many people.
