Google Revamps Its Play Store With Ai Features And More

Google said Tuesday it’s making a number of changes to really nan Play Store looks and functions successful an effort to amended personalize nan shop to its users and summation engagement. Among nan caller features is simply a redesigned Apps tab, a caller Play Games experience, a caller tab focused connected your interests, and different features that leverage Gemini AI.

The update builds connected different caller additions that purpose to make nan Play Store much of a destination — for illustration a tab that shows you wherever you tin watch your favourite shows aliases Collections, which organizes your favourite apps and games into areas for illustration shop, watch, and listen, Google Play Games VP and General Manager Aurash Mahbood explained to TechCrunch successful a property briefing.

“For complete 4 cardinal users, Google Play is an important gateway to discovering apps, games, books, movies, TV, and timely taste content, and our ambition is to thief each users prosecute pinch nan apps and contented that substance their needs and interests,” he said successful a property briefing up of today’s launch.

Not surprisingly, nan update is adding AI-powered functionality to nan Play Store.

AI Search and caller Apps tab

With a characteristic called Guided Search, users tin find nan app aliases crippled they want to effort by typing successful a extremity aliases thought alternatively of nan app’s name. For example, a personification could type successful “find a home” to beryllium pointed to existent property apps.

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The Play Store’s Apps tab is besides being updated to see caller “curated spaces” dedicated to seasonal topics and those tailored to a user’s interests. These could propulsion successful contented from aggregate apps, Google says. In nan U.S., contented related to nan WNBA will beryllium featured here, for instance.

This description follows nan motorboat of curated spaces successful India and Japan, which had focused connected location interests for illustration cricket and comics, respectively. Korean users will besides summation a curated abstraction focused connected video content, offering a operation of movies, TV shows, and short-form video, including play and serialized stories. Google notes that short-form contented is nan astir often consumed media format connected smartphones.

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A individual location pinch nan You tab

A caller You tab intends to pull users to prosecute pinch nan Play Store much frequently, arsenic it will connection a centralized spot for search subscriptions, rewards (like Play Points), recommendations, stats, and updates.

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Notably, nan tab will connection recommendations related to your interests, for illustration movies aliases shows, podcasts, ebooks aliases audiobooks, and make it easier to jump backmost into what you were reading, listening to, aliases watching last.

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Gamers will besides spot their caller gamer floor plan successful this tab, which organizes stats and achievements crossed games and devices. These profiles tin besides now beryllium customized pinch a Gen AI avatar.

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A caller Games tab and AI ‘sidekick’

New features for gamers are besides rolling retired aft nan motorboat of nan caller Games app that shipped pinch Android rival Apple’s iOS 26 release.

Now, nan Games tab will centralize stat and accomplishment tracking, rewards, and organization into 1 place. Play Games Leagues will let users to situation their friends and compete for Play Points rewards. This kicks disconnected pinch nan first convention dedicated to nan celebrated title Subway Surfers, which will tally from October 10 done October 23.

However, nan much absorbing update is nan summation of nan AI-enabled Play Games Sidekick. This is simply a caller in-game overlay that you tin entree to get real-time gaming assistance from Gemini Live.

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The thought is that you tin inquire Gemini for thief erstwhile you get stuck successful a crippled and request guidance aliases tips. The characteristic builds connected nan activity Google showcased pinch DeepMind successful December, wherever nan institution showed disconnected really it was processing AI agents crossed domains, including gaming.

“Instead of having to time off nan crippled to activity retired tutorials aliases walkthroughs, we’re leveraging nan latest Gemini audio-to-audio exemplary to thief understand your gaming context, providing you speedy responses and encouragement,” said Mahbood.

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The Sidekick will besides curate and shape different applicable gaming info successful 1 place, truthful you tin enactment successful nan game. Initially, nan characteristic will beryllium supported successful games from EA and Netmarble, including Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, FC Mobile, and Solo Leveling: Arise.

Also caller are nan enhanced Game Detail Pages, which will showcase accusation astir nan title, including ongoing events, developer updates, and offers. Next month, gamers will besides beryllium capable to inquire questions and stock answers connected this page to supply aliases get thief from different gamers.

The Google Play Games connected PC offering, which brings much than 200,000 titles to Windows desktops, is exiting beta today, too, Google said.

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