{"id":28790,"date":"2025-07-01T03:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T03:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28790\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T03:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T03:14:16","slug":"google-is-redesigning-one-of-the-play-stores-most-important-menus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28790\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is redesigning one of the Play Store’s most important menus"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you open the Play Store, chances are you’re either looking for a new app to install or updating your existing ones. Google has made a lot of changes to the Play Store’s app search and discovery<\/a> experience recently, and now, it seems like a new UI will alter how your other most commonly-used Play Store function is accessed.<\/p>\n

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The App Store isn’t just a revenue stream for Apple<\/p>\n

To update your apps, you can long-press the Play Store icon and use the My apps<\/strong> shortcut to jump straight to the relevant menu. But if you’re like me, you don’t always remember this trick and often find yourself looking for the updates section from the app’s home screen. In order to do that, you have to open the account switcher menu, then dive into Manage apps & device<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A full-screen account switcher is in the works<\/p>\n

In an APK teardown for Android Authority<\/a>, code sleuth AssembleDebug spotted Google preparing a new full-screen account switcher menu for the Play Store. The new UI is already far enough along in development that it could be enabled by tweaking hidden feature flags on version 46.8.29-31 of the Play Store app.<\/p>\n

The biggest change is a switch from a popup UI to a full-screen view. In the updated menu, any secondary Google accounts attached to your device are tucked into a Switch account<\/strong> drop-down. The menu itself is scrollable, which could pave the way for Google to add more options to this section of the app.<\/p>\n

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Source: AssembleDebug \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n

In addition to switching between accounts, this menu is where you access your Play Points<\/a> rewards, and it’s also the place to find and manage your digital subscriptions. Even Android’s app security suite, Play Protect, has a home in this menu \u2014 so once the redesign goes live, it will be hard to miss. <\/p>\n

The Play Store is not the first Google app to receive this new full-screen account switcher design. It was spotted rolling out in the Gmail app<\/a> towards the end of last year, and Google Maps started getting it<\/a> just last month. We questioned the full-screen design when it was seen in Gmail, but in the case of Maps and the Play Store, there’s a lot more going on in this menu, so giving it more screen real estate makes sense.<\/p>\n

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Looks like color’s back on the (search) menu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you open the Play Store, chances are you’re either looking for a new app to install or…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[611,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-28790","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\/114775802757398307","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28790","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=28790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}