It's bizarre that my phone updates everything else 0.2 seconds after an update comes out, sometimes while I'm literally using the app in question, but it won't auto apply an important security update?
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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Beats me!
Nice reminder. But how do you do it?
Every device is different, but usually Settings > Biometrics and Security > Google Play system update
Is there a recent vulnerability that I need to know about ?
Not that I'm aware of, but it's best practice to keep your stuff updated
Not always, but security is important.
Considering Google's track record on simplifying UIs by taking away features, I'll take my chances, and only update for severe threats.
Sadly software updates have turned in to an enshitification vector.
I guarantee you that if they wanted to enshittify Google play services they’d just make the update mandatory.
google play services is the enshitification
Mine does.
I've been seeing other posts about this too and I'm curious why this wasn't updated on some ROMs.
I use a Sony Xperia 1 VI which has very clean AOSP-like ROM with only a couple OEM customization features, and the Google Play System remains up to date without me having to maintain it manually. But I'm seeing at least Samsung and Xiaomi phones where people found this wasn't automatically updated, perhaps it has something to do with some of the heavily OEM-customized ROMs? In that case it still surprised me Samsung didn't even take care of this considering how they have a particularly close collaboration with Google...
Pixel automatically updates play services
I think every phone does that. What I'm referring to specifically is the Google Play system, which is different from the Google Play Services. Google Play services is part of the Google Play system.
I meant to say google Play system, which pixel still updates automatically but doesn't alert that a reboot is necessary
I get it now! From what I was able to tell, some phones update automatically but don't reboot, some do update automatically but not as frequently and some don't update automatically at all.
Done, thank you.
Good job!