Latest Google Play System Update – February 2023

Critical Fixes

• [Phone] Bug fixes for system management & diagnostics, and utilities related services.[1]

Device Connectivity

• [Phone] Pin Nearby Sharing heads up notification to screen when shown.[2]

Google Play Store

• New Features to help you discover the Apps & Games you love.[3]
• Optimizations allowing faster and more reliable download and installation.[3]
• Continuous improvements to Play Protect to keep your device safe.[3]
• Various performance optimizations, bug fixes and improvements to security, stability and accessibility.[3]
• With LiveOps reporting, you can report bad in-app events, offers, and updates from Apps & Games.[4]

Utilities

• [Phone] Bug fixes for Account Management, and System Management & Diagnostics related services.[5]

Wallet

• [Phone] Updated user experience within Google Pay to send money internationally to IN users using recipient’s phone number via third party services.[5]
• [Phone] This feature provides improvements to the Google Pay experience in Japan.[6]

Developer Services

• [Phone] New developer features for Google and third party app developers to support Machine Learning & AI related developer services in their apps.[2]
• [Phone, TV] New developer features for Google and third party app developers to support Ads, and Maps related developer services in their apps.[2][5]

System Management

• [Phone] Updates to System Management, and Usability services that improve Device Performance.[6]

[1]Available through Google Play services v04.23 updated on 02/01/2023

[2]Available through Google Play services v04.23 updated on 02/01/2023

[3]Available through Google Play Store v34.3 updated on 02/01/2023

[4]Available through Google Play Store v34.4 updated on 02/06/2023

[5]Available through Google Play services v05.23 updated on 02/08/2023

[6]Available through Google Play services v06.23 updated on 02/15/2023

Critical Fixes

• [Phone, Wear OS] Bug fixes for Account Management, Security & Privacy, System Management & Diagnostics, and Utilities related services.[1][3][5]

Device Connectivity

• [Phone] Support for device discovery when screen is off.[5]

Games

• [Phone, PC] Expanding the range of users and use cases supported by the Play Games profile.[2]

Google Play Store

• New Features to help you discover the Apps & Games you love.[3]
• Optimizations allowing faster and more reliable download and installation.[3]
• Continuous improvements to Play Protect to keep your device safe.[3]
• Various performance optimizations, bug fixes and improvements to security, stability and accessibility.[3]

Security & Privacy

• [Phone] Password manager helps you save different passwords to your Google account and lets you use them across various websites and devices. With the new change, you will be able to add notes to your existing and new passwords.[5]

Utilities

• [Phone] Improve user experience for auto filling passwords.[5]

Wallet

• [Phone] Visual and infrastructure updates to Wallet mobile web experience.[4]
[Phone] Adds contactless data transfer (NFC) restrictions for passes.[5]

Developer Services

• [Phone] New developer features for Google and third party app developers to support Device Connectivity, Location & Context, Machine Learning & AI, Maps, and System Management & Diagnostics related developer services in their apps.[2][4][5]
• [Phone] Update the platform QR scanner with the ability to select an existing photo and add support for handling Matter and UPI codes from OEM cameras.[4]

System Management

• [Phone] Updates to System Management, and Usability services that improve Device Connectivity, Device Performance, Network Usage, Privacy, Security, Stability, and Usability.[1][2]

[1] Available through Google Play system update for January

[2] Available through Google Play services v23.01 updated on 01/18/2023

[3] Available through Google Play Store v33.5 updated on 01/18/2023

[4] Available through Google Play services v23.02 updated on 01/18/2023

[5] Available through Google Play services v23.03 updated on 01/19/2023

Critical Fixes

• [Auto, Phone, TV] Bug fixes for Account Management, Security, Stability and Updatability related services.[2][5][6]

Device Connectivity

• [Phone] Update Cast related settings.[2]
• [Phone] Reduce delays in discovering contacts via Nearby share.[2]
• [Phone] Inform the user when casting to a Tablet device needing user interaction.[2]
• [Phone] Revamp the visual and motion design for Nearby Share Android app.[5]

Google Play Store

• New Features to help you discover the Apps & Games you love.[3]
• Optimizations allowing faster and more reliable download and installation.[3]
• Continuous improvements to Play Protect to keep your device safe.[3]
• Various performance optimizations, bug fixes and improvements to security, stability and accessibility.[3]
• [Phone] You can now view the installation progress of multiple apps and games as you navigate through Google Play.[3]
• [Phone] Automatically archive apps when you need more storage space while preserving your data.[3]

Security & Privacy

• [Phone] Find My Device now supports encrypted last-known-location reports for Android devices, using a new privacy centric framework.[6]

Support

• [Phone] New feature enabling users to enter feedback description using voice input. Voice input will be enabled and transcribed only when users shows explicit intent to enter voice by clicking on the input button.[5]

Wallet

• [Phone] Beta feature to allow users from selected US state(s) to digitize their state ID/driver’s license into the Google Wallet for convenient, private and secure presentation.[2]
• [Phone] With Wallet, you can now manage payment cards on your Fitbit device.[4]
• [Phone] An internal feature that allows checking the quality of ID images during customer identity verification for Google products.[6]

Developer Services

• New developer features for Google and third party app developers to support Ads, Device Connectivity, Location & Context, Maps, and Utilities related developer services in their apps.[2][5][6][7]

System Management

• Updates to system management services that improve device performance, and stability.[2]

[2] Available through Google Play services v48.22 updated on 12/01/2022

[3] Available through Google Play Store v33.5 updated on 12/05/2022

[4] Available through Google Play services v41.22 updated on 12/05/2022

[5] Available through Google Play services v49.22 updated on 12/08/2022

[6] Available through Google Play services v50.22 updated on 12/15/2022

[7] Available through Google Play services v52.22 updated on 12/29/2022

Account Management

• [Phone] Allow supervised users that do not have time limit features enabled to make changes to the device clock.[2]
• [Phone] Update the design of the Google Account account picker.[9]

Critical Fixes

• [Phone] Bug fixes for Account Management, and System Management & Diagnostics related services.[4][6]
• [Phone] Bug fixes for system management & diagnostics, and utilities related services.[1]

Device Connectivity

• [Phone] Nearby Share will now show in the first row as a sharing option.[6]

Developer Services

• [Phone] Enable photo picker support back to Android 4.4.[5]
• New developer features for Google and third party app developers to support Account Management, and Machine Learning & AI related developer services in their apps.[6]

Google Play Store

• New Features to help you discover the Apps & Games you love.[3]
• Optimizations allowing faster and more reliable download and installation.[3]
• Continuous improvements to Play Protect to keep your device safe.[3]
• Various performance optimizations, bug fixes and improvements to security, stability and accessibility.[3]
• [Phone] New formats for search results.[3]
• [Phone] Help users to resolve app crashes with new update prompts.[8]
• [Phone] Updates to game cluster views on Play for Chromebooks.[3]
• [Phone] Update to Kids menu format on large screen devices.[3]
• [Phone] Allow automatic updates over limited mobile data of Google Play apps for users who do not have regular access to WIFI.[7]
• [Phone] Archive apps when you need more storage space while preserving your data.[10]

Wallet

• [Phone] Allows merchants to create the GPay button dynamically to customize it.[2]
• [Phone] API update to allow deep links to additional Google Wallet screens.[2]
• [Phone] Improvements to SMART Health Card support within Wallet.[4]
• [Phone] Wallet users can selectively exclude loyalty cards imported from Gmail.[4]
• [Phone] Expand FeliCa payment support to all FeliCa-capable devices in Japan.[4]
• [Phone] Verification notification for users completing an Online transaction with GPay button.[4]
• [Phone] Restrict Passes to a single device or user.[4]
• [Phone] Major improvements that impact the functionality of digital car key.[6]

System Management

• Updates to system management services that improve device connectivity, network usage, security, stability, and updatability.[1]
• [Phone] Support for new daylight saving time change in Fiji and Mexico.[1]

[1] Available through Google Play system update for November

[2] Available through Google Play services v44.22 updated on 11/03/2022

[3] Available through Google Play Store v33.3 updated on 11/14/2022

[4] Available through Google Play services v45.22 updated on 11/10/2022

[5] Available through Google Play services v43.22 updated on 11/04/2022

[6] Available through Google Play services v46.22 updated on 11/17/2022

[7] Available through Google Play Store v32.9 updated on 11/14/2022

[8] Available through Google Play Store v33.2 updated on 11/15/2022

[9] Available through Google Play services v47.22 updated on 11/24/2022

[10] Available through Google Play Store v33.4 updated on 11/24/2022