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Mystery Solved?!

CardLady

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K, so, ya know the creepy experience of having some Android App just magically appear on your device?

Well, I was holding my tablet when it happened! Wow, was I perplexed. The action, it was nearly possessed! In rapid succession, multiple Google searches, pages flying one right after the next. It was a sight to behold, lemme tell ya! A ladies name appeared as if I'd intended to send her something via Messenger. Ding, ding, ding went Google as the search bar struck & rolled over & over & over. I was gobsmacked! It took me several seconds before having thought enough to grab my second, larger tablet to begin recording the incredible event!

Once the display had ended I got back in the saddle & begun the research for some making sense of it all. Searching the web for another's odd occurrence with Solutions in mind, naturally. So, spotting, pretty quickly this li'l gem, I Am Grateful for The Android Forum!

What's more, I may've solved this mystery & quite by accident which is apropos, yeah?!

When checking out my Notifications scroll I discovered:

* Very near the time, if not precisely (not yet checked the video but for accuracy), was Nine Updated Apps! This has got to be the culprit, right?! Having that sorta 'takeover' whereby I certainly was not notified like sometimes ya are, .…. 'Wanna Update so & so' ... type deal. So, the nine apps updated all snug like, LIKE THEY WERE ON HALLUCINOGENS!

Well, hope it helps anyone else as stupefied & outright entranced by The Experience!

Cheers
 
Welcome to the forum :)

I've never seen that, but I don't allow any app to automatically update (that's all turned-off in the Play Store app for me), nor do I let them automatically place icons on my desktop. If you have automatic updates turned on then notification could depend on whether there are any permissions changed (if there are then it has to get your consent to install the update).

I'm curious about the Google search business though: was the Google app one of the updates?
 
Can you share the video? That sounds crazy! Is it possible that your apps only update over wifi and you suddenly were connected to wifi?
 
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