The Google Play Store is the go to place for tech savvies who love to install and uninstall different types of apps. So if you are one of those people who love to use Google Play Store for your daily dose of applications, then read ahead for a few tips and trick which will improve your experience of using this app.
- The Google app store is not just for going through different apps, checking their ratings and reviews, while giving one’s own reviews. There are many tips and tricks which can help in the better management of the apps and allow you to sue your device in a better manner.
- If there are other people using your device or if there are children who snatch your phone and install or purchase unwanted apps, then you can make use of a password to make secure downloads rather than checking out surprise purchase on your phone.
- While searching for applications in the Google play store, the list which appears is in accordance with maturity. So the apps with a higher maturity level will appear first, in case you want to make changes to this system you can easily do that, by filtering them. All you have to do is:
- Go to play store
- Click on settings
- Tap on filtering
- Next un-tick the boxes as per your preferences.
- In case you are skeptical about linking your credit card to the Google play store, then there is an easier alternative to purchase applications. You can simply buy a Google Gift Card and redeem it to buy new apps. The steps are pretty simple
- Go to the play store
- Swipe towards the right on the left hand side of the screen
- Next, click on redeem
- Lastly, enter the code of your gift card and start downloading.
- Did you know that Google Play store has a wishlist? Yes, now you can easily add your most liked or coveted apps to the wish list and come back to it when you want to buy it. Once the wish list is created, you can check it out on the app itself.
- Notifications can be very annoying, so if your android phone is buzzing with app update notification, then you must disable them. Once you disable these notifications, they will not bother you, here is how you can do it.
- Go to play store
- Next, click on settings
- Un-tick the notification box and you are done
- Is your home screen full of widgets? Do you wish to get rid of this problem? There is a way when you can disallow the widgets from appearing on your home screen whenever you install a new application.
- Go to the play store
- Next, go to settings, where you will find “auto-add widgets”
- Un-tick that box and you will be good to go
- If you have more than one android device which you use with a single account, then you might want to synchronize everything for a better arrangement of the apps. Here are a few steps through which you can do it:
- Go to the play store
- Next, click on the gear icon
- And go to setting and sync the visible devices under your account
- The introduction of the Android Device manager will allow the user to control the device from the play store i.e. the web version of it. This way you can call your device, lock it, and erase data from it too! How cool is that?
- You can easily download apps from the web version of the play store as well, so your browser can be a tool to install new applications.
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