Starting Wednesday, Android users can hold down on the Play Store app icon to add one or more Category widgets to their phones
I have a problem. I keep too many of my apps open on my phone. I do it because I constantly check my feeds and then forget to close them out. Google’scould finally offer a new way to browse my feeds without diving into each app individually. If you’ve been enjoying a few of the new capabilities of the, this is another one to try out. However, you may need to fiddle with privacy settings to avoid the feature becoming a sludge-filled pit of algorithmic content recommendations.
Several apps won’t show a feed at all. Apps like Twitter, or “X,” along with Meta apps like Instagram, won’t display any recommended content, though you can select the apps from the bottom bar inside the widget. Google says neither app supports the current SDK, which is pretty on-brand for Meta and Elon Musk. At the very least, Collections is an easy way to find all your various apps without scrounging them in your app list or home screen.
Google told Gizmodo that it plans to let users create their own custom collections. That feature might roll out sometime later this year, but as it stands, Categories could be a quick way to check on multiple feeds all at once without having to dive into each app individually.This is Google’s larger effort to make Play Store less of a single shop for apps into its kind of App for apps.
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