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Google really wants you to use a Play Games profile
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Google really wants you to use a Play Games profile

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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority

TL;DR

  • The latest Google System Update changelog states that Play Store will display Play Games profile launch from different surfaces.
  • The Play Games profile makes it easy to sign in to supported games and save and sync your progress.
  • Google also made other search improvements and changes.

Google Play Store And Google Play Services are two very critical components of a great Android experience. Google keeps a change log of new features it adds through automatic app updates, usually categorized as Google System Update. Google for end of October 2024 announced The following changes in various parts of the ecosystem:

  • Google Play Store v43.4 (2024-10-28):
    • (PC, Phone) With this new feature, you will see a pop-up message that allows you to create your Play Games profile from different parts of the Play Store.
    • (PC, Phone) With this new feature, you will get improvements that will help prevent your protection from being disabled due to abuse.
    • (Phone) You will have a better search experience thanks to updates in the search suggestions user interface.
  • Google Play services v24.42 (2024-10-28):
    • Account Management: (Phone) Thanks to this new feature, you will be able to access more relevant search results and a special section for relevant help center articles on the search page of your Google account settings.
    • Wallet: (Phone) Thanks to this new feature, you will be able to use the Pix payment method with the “Tap and Pix” option in Google Wallet.

The highlight of these changes is that Google Wallet now supports Pix for Brazilian users. Additionally, with the latest Google Play Services update, you will get more relevant results when you search for queries in your Google account settings.

The Play Store will now ask users to create a Play Games profile in more locations around the world. The Google Play Games profile makes it easy to automatically sign in to supported games, allowing you to save your progress and earn achievements. It’s a good way to sync your progress to the cloud across a variety of supported games. So if something happens to your phone that results in data loss, you can restore your game progress without much thought.

Google also mentions “improvements to help prevent your protection from being disabled due to abuse,” which is a rather odd statement to make without further context. We’ve reached out to Google to learn more about this change and will let you know when we hear back.

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