The Play Store is known to everyone and does not need to tell you much about it. It is enough that it is the largest application store at the level of various smartphone stores such as Apple Store and Microsoft. It has a huge and huge number of various applications ready for use by users of Android phones, but it is not just a store that you download applications through it, but rather it includes some advantages and tricks that may be far from the view of the ordinary user of Android phones, and therefore we have to highlight them based on this article so that users can make the most of the main store to download Android applications. So let's start by reviewing them.
 |
| Google Play Store has features that Android users ignore |
Play Protect
The Play Protect feature is a new feature released by Google for Android phone users to protect the phone from the danger of spying and unsafe applications available on the Play Store, as this feature scans the applications installed on your phone now and compares its activity with the same applications on other devices until it is verified that these applications Its activity has not changed to spy on users' activity, which is the method hackers used to bypass Google Play protection.
You can check whether there are harmful applications on your phone or not by going to the Google Settings application, then going to the Security section, then clicking on Verify Apps, and you will see directly the applications that have been scanned recently and the result of the examination below. If there are one or more applications that harm your device. The phone will be notified to you immediately to take the appropriate action.
parental protection
The Google Play Store has millions of different applications that perform different functions, including applications that are not allowed to be used for certain age groups, perhaps because they include unsafe content for this category, but fortunately, the Google Play Store includes a parental protection feature that allows parents to impose protection on children’s devices to avoid Access to inappropriate applications and content for people of different age groups.
You can activate this feature after opening the store, then go to Settings from the side menu, and then click on the Parental controls section, then activate the Parental controls option at the top, and you will be asked to set a PIN to prevent changing the settings by anyone else, so you set the number and you can now impose parental protection on any of Store sections, whether on applications, movies, books, or music. About applications, you can allow the display of applications intended for all individuals or over 10 years old, and by pressing the Save button, applications suitable for this specific category will be displayed.
Get apps of a certain size
One of the great tricks in the Play Store is also to search for applications or games of certain sizes. For example, if the internal memory of your phone does not accommodate more than 50MB as space and you want to know the applications that can work on this site, then certainly you will not enter all the store applications and know the size of both Rather, you can use the search field to write “Apps under 10 Mb”, and you can replace Apps with Games to search for games, as well as replace the number 10 with the specific space for the applications you are looking for of this size, then after pressing the search button, all applications from different categories that fit the size appear in front of you The limit, and you may find applications that are slightly larger than this size, but the majority of them are less than the size that you want.
- Find out which Android apps and games are available for free for a limited time
- Send apps from your Android phone to another phone via Google Play
- How to use the new Nearby Share feature on Android phones
- Top 10 Android apps to transfer files at high speeds between devices
- Everything you need to know about the new Android feature Nearby Share
- All you need to know about APK files and how to get and install them
How do I start trying new apps?
After opening the Google Play Store, you will see, at the bottom of the search field, a set of quick buttons to search for categories of applications or games..etc. Among them is a button bearing the name Early Access. When you click on it, a group of applications and games will appear to you. These applications can be the first user to try them. Because it was not officially available within the Google Store applications and developers are still working on it until one day it reaches all users, so if you are one of those people who like to try new applications and discover what new they bring, this section is suitable for you, but remember that they are unfinished applications and therefore you may encounter an error or slowness in using it.
Learn about new games and applications that are important to you
Another new feature in the Google Play Store as well as the Pre-registration feature, where by activating this feature, you receive an e-mail notification when any application or game of applications or games that interests you or the specific category of games that you always like to try is released, and you can activate this The feature is after opening the Play Store, then going to Settings, then to the Notifications section, and here you will find the Pre-registration option at the bottom. You can put a “checkmark” in front of it to activate the feature, as a notification will be sent to your email registered with Google immediately after the launch of any new game of the type you like.
