{"id":103439,"date":"2025-07-30T00:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103439\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T00:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:37:11","slug":"google-fixing-failed-play-system-update-on-android-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103439\/","title":{"rendered":"Google fixing \u2018Failed\u2019 Play system update on Android 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Google-Play-System-update-3.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Google is aware of how some devices, including Pixel, on Android 16 and 16 QPR1 are failing to install Play system updates.<\/p>\n<p>This issue was acknowledged today on the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/pixelphone\/thread\/361571966\/google-play-system-update-affecting-android-16-and-betas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pixel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/android\/thread\/361573445\/google-play-system-update-affecting-android-16-and-betas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Android<\/a> Community forums. It involves a \u201cFailed to update\u201d error when going to Settings &gt; Security &amp; privacy &gt; System &amp; updates &gt; Google Play system update. Tapping \u201cTry again\u201d fails, with this emerging as a problem in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>This impacts \u201csome devices running Android 16 and Android 16 beta.\u201d In our example, a Pixel phone is still on the May 1, 2025 Google Play system update in July.\u00a0That said, most of our devices are not seeing any issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Google says \u201cthere is no need to factory reset your device.\u201d It has \u201cidentified a fix\u201d and will \u201croll it out to users in an upcoming Google Play system update.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>As far as we can tell, this Google Play system update gap has not resulted in any missing features.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"Google Play system update failed\" data-height=\"895\" data-id=\"682819\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=682819\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/Google-Play-system-update-failed.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=960\" data-width=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Google-Play-system-update-failed.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>More on Play services:<\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/43RjEnY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-682039\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iMazing_-WWDC25_9to5mac_750x150@2x.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"140\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is aware of how some devices, including Pixel, on Android 16 and 16 QPR1 are failing to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":103440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[611,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-103439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114939392342540928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}