Google Play’s “My Apps & Games” section gets new tabs and sorting options
Following the news
of the “Free app of the week” update rolling out to the Google Play Store
yesterday comes word of another new improvement: the My Apps & Games
section is getting a revamp.
The previous
version of this page featured “Installed,” “All,” and “Beta” tabs which you
could flick between, while the new version — rolling out now — houses four
options: “Installed,” “Updates,” “Library,” and “Beta.”
The Installed page
used to contain app updates also, but in the new version, this has been split
off into its own tab. That seems like a sensible move, but the renaming of the
All tab doesn’t seem as necessary.
The All tab was where you could find
currently installed apps, previously installed apps and apps installed on
different devices with the same Google account. According to 9to5Google,
this has now simply been renamed Library. The moniker “Library” in the digital
world usually suggests things that you have, like songs in your media player,
for example. Using it as the name for apps not currently installed seems odd.
The Beta tab, meanwhile, is functionally
the same as before,
Also in the update are new sorting options in
the Installed and Library tabs so you can arrange the lists by when they
were last updated or last used, by file size or by alphabetical order. Take a
look at some of the screenshots of the new interface from 9to5Google below.
Though some people have reported seeing this
for weeks already, it’s yet to appear on all devices and regions, so it’s
likely tiered a server-side rollout. If you haven’t yet, you should see it
arrive on your device in the coming weeks.
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