Jacques Wegier
Newbie
My Pixel 4a, which I purchased more than a month ago, is my first Android smartphone and in spite that some things work differently than my old iPhone, I already feel at home but yesterday I was surprised to see that 6 of my installed apps have some updates ready.
In my iPhone, the presence of any available app updates was very easy to notice and hard to miss: on the top of the Apps Store icon on my Home screen, a notification dot with the number of available updates automatically appeared. One more click and the update process started for all apps.
I do not see that this is the case on Android. The Google Play icon on my home screen does not show any notification dot.
In the Google Play settings, auto-update is set on 'any network' and all the 6 apps have auto-update turned on but they do not update automatically. I can > Google Play > Menu Icon > My apps & games > Update all, but why don't they update automatically if I have turned on the right setting?
How do I know that app updates are available without going through all these steps? Did I miss something?
Thank you very much
In my iPhone, the presence of any available app updates was very easy to notice and hard to miss: on the top of the Apps Store icon on my Home screen, a notification dot with the number of available updates automatically appeared. One more click and the update process started for all apps.
I do not see that this is the case on Android. The Google Play icon on my home screen does not show any notification dot.
In the Google Play settings, auto-update is set on 'any network' and all the 6 apps have auto-update turned on but they do not update automatically. I can > Google Play > Menu Icon > My apps & games > Update all, but why don't they update automatically if I have turned on the right setting?
How do I know that app updates are available without going through all these steps? Did I miss something?
Thank you very much
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