{"id":1420,"date":"2018-08-21T14:58:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T14:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keyapp.top\/blog\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2019-05-21T11:53:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T11:53:08","slug":"google-play-news-app-download-preference-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keyapp.top\/blog\/google-play-news\/google-play-news-app-download-preference-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Play News: App Download Preference Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/androidheadlines.com\/category\/google-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Google<\/a>\u00a0Play Store has been updated with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/androidheadlines.com\/category\/news\/best\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">app<\/a>\u00a0download preferences, which is definitely a nice addition if you\u2019d like to avoid wasting your mobile data for downloading applications. When you open up Google Play Store, and head over to \u2018Settings\u2019, you should be able to see the \u2018App download preference\u2019 option. After you enter that menu, you will see three options in there:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Over any network\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Over Wi-Fi only\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Ask me every time\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>So for example, if you select over any network, you will be able to download applications no matter if you\u2019re hooked up to 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi, while the \u2018Over Wi-Fi only\u2019 option will prevent you from accidentally downloading an app over mobile data.<\/p>\n<p>If you select the \u2018Over Wi-Fi only\u2019, you can still hit the \u2018Download\u2019 button next to an app, but the phone will wait until you\u2019re connected to a Wi-Fi network (if you\u2019re not at the time) before it actually downloads that app. Do keep in mind that these options will not be in effect if your apps are set to update automatically in the \u2018Auto-update apps\u2019 section of Google Play Store settings, so change that accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>This seems to be a server-side change, though it has not appeared in any version of the app before v11.1.30, so keep that mind, though this feature should be available to basically everyone who has a modern\u00a0Android smartphone at this point, if not, it will be soon.<\/p>\n<p>This new option is quite useful, and it\u2019s rather odd that it took Google that long to implement it. That is basically it, no additional changes were spotted other than that single tweak to Google Play Store settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u00a0Play Store has been updated with\u00a0app\u00a0download preferences, which is definitely a nice addition if you\u2019d like to avoid wasting your mobile data for downloading applications. When you open up Google Play Store, and head over to \u2018Settings\u2019, you should be able to see the \u2018App download preference\u2019 option. After you enter that menu, you will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-google-play-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keyapp.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keyapp.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keyapp.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapp.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapp.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/keyapp.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316,"href":"https:\/\/keyapp.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/2316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapp.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keyapp.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapp.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapp.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}