Google Play System Update August 2022: Here’s What’s New

Every month Google releases a new system update for Android. This is in addition to security updates and other updates. August’s also now brings new features and improvements; more is now known about this.

Google Play Update August

In addition to the security updates and other updates that appear for Android, there are also the Google Play system updates. This mainly implements improvements in the background. These updates are often offered and installed silently, sometimes combined with another update for the device. Google pushes these updates to the devices itself, so you are not dependent on the manufacturer for this.

The changelog of the Google Play system update of August has been released. This allows us to find out which improvements and changes have been made. We see several improvements for the Google Play Store, the phone app on your Android device and a few other things. We have listed the changelog with the changes for the August update for you below.

The Galaxy A53

Google Play Store

• Improvements to Play-as-you-download feature to let gamers start playing mobile games while the app download continues to reduce waiting times.^[3]
• New Features to help you discover the Apps & Games you love.^[3]
• Optimizations allowing faster and more reliable download and installation.^[3]
• New features to the Play Pass and Play Points programs.^[3]
• Enhancements to Google Play Billing.^[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]

Support

• [Phone] This release adds link groups to GoogleHelp to give users detailed help instructions from apps.^[2]
• [Phone] Adds support for Material 3 dynamic color in Android Help.^[2]

System Management & Diagnostics

• [Phone] New settings screens provide better visibility into and control over the functionality in Google Play services on your device.^[2]

Utilities

• [Phone] New UI for AutoFill.^[2]

wallet

• [Phone] Allows users to add new eMoney cards to Google Pay to pay on transit and in stores in Japan.^[2]

Developer Services

• New developer features for Google and third party app developers to support Location & Context related developer services in their apps.^[2]

System Management

• Updates to system management services that improve security, and stability.^[2]

^{[2] Available through Google Play services v33.22 updated on 08/18/2022
[3] Available through Google Play Store v31.1 updated on 07/28/2022.}