Google Play Store Now Supports Up to Four Simultaneous App Downloads and Three Updates: A Major Upgrade
Google Play Store Now Supports Multiple App Downloads and Updates Simultaneously
For years, Google's Play Store limited users to downloading or updating only one app at a time. However, this restriction is now being lifted, allowing up to four parallel downloads and three simultaneous updates.
Previously, the Play Store would download apps sequentially. This meant that if you were updating several apps, only one would install at a time while the others waited in a pending queue. Despite modern phones and faster internet speeds being more than capable of handling multiple app installations, this limitation made transitioning to a new device or updating apps on an older phone a slow and frustrating process.
With the latest update, Android users can now download up to four apps simultaneously and update up to three apps in parallel. This change marks a return to a more flexible download system that was available in earlier versions of the Play Store before Google introduced restrictions, likely due to hardware limitations on older devices.
The news was first reported by 9to5Google, which confirmed that the feature is already available on several devices. In my own tests on an Android phone, I successfully downloaded four apps at once, with the fifth app queued as pending. Additionally, updating apps worked efficiently, with three apps updating simultaneously while the fourth was pending.
This update builds on a change made in April, when Google allowed two simultaneous app downloads, though updates were still restricted. With the current enhancement, the update process was significantly faster, cutting my usual update time in half.
At present, the Play Store’s capabilities are on par with the iOS App Store, raising the possibility of further updates to address remaining limitations. Google has not yet provided any comments on this new feature.
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