{"id":114411,"date":"2025-08-27T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/114411\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:00:09","slug":"google-play-store-adds-auto-open-toggle-for-new-android-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/114411\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Play Store adds &#8216;auto-open&#8217; toggle for new Android apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Google-Play-Store-3.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Play Store will now allow users to \u201cauto-open\u201d new apps as they\u2019re downloaded to their Android devices, as the functionality is rolling out widely this week.<\/p>\n<p>In what could be a handy option for idle app installs, the Play Store\u2019s new \u201cauto-open when ready\u201d toggle will open up the application as soon as it\u2019s fully installed. The new toggle appears beneath the install progress bar as soon as the install is started. It is turned off by default.<\/p>\n<p>When activated, the feature indeed opens the app automatically, but not quite as soon as it\u2019s installed.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, you get a notification with a 5-second countdown before the app opens, giving you the chance to stop that process if needed. That might be helpful if the app you\u2019ve chosen to auto-open is a game that took a while to download. <\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>The clear use-cases for this include the likes of downloading an app for travel, a restaurant, or somewhere else that you need to go into it immediately but where the download might take a moment. This new process means you can jump back to a message or something else while you wait, but ensure you don\u2019t get caught up in something else and forget about the app you just installed \u2013 we\u2019ve all been there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" height=\"1024\" width=\"439\" data-id=\"687083\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot_20250827_103657_Google-Play-Store.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-687083\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"933\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-id=\"687084\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/play-store-auto-open-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-687084\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re seeing this functionality live on a Galaxy Z Fold 7 and some other devices as of this morning, and others are seeing it live as well <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ArtemR\/status\/1960571267649573126\" rel=\"nofollow\">over the past few hours<\/a>. Notably, we saw another UI for the same toggle on a slightly outdated Pixel 9 Pro XL, and that one only appears on games. <\/p>\n<p>More on Android:<\/p>\n<p>Follow Ben:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NexusBen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Twitter\/X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nexusben.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/45JXR2v\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-685657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08-19-Pixel-10-Series-Grip-Banner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"140\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Play Store will now allow users to \u201cauto-open\u201d new apps as they\u2019re downloaded to their Android devices,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-114411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}