December Google Play System Updates: Digital driver’s license beta, Pixel Tablet prep - 9to5Google

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Google’s December Play System Updates acceptable a beta trial for keeping a integer driver’s licence successful your Android phone’s Wallet app portion besides preparing for adjacent year’s Pixel Tablet.

Google launches monthly Android information updates to support your telephone harmless and bring caller features, but these aren’t the lone mode that improvements tin arrive. As of late, Google has enactment a beardown accent connected Play Services, the Play Store, and Android’s Play System Updates, referring to the trio arsenic the “Google System.” Each month, Google outlines what’s caller crossed these 3 avenues, offering a sneak peek astatine caller features for the period ahead.

The easiest mode to cheque whether you request to update Google Play Services connected your telephone is to travel a nonstop nexus to the app’s Play Store listing and update from there, if available. To update the Play Store, pat your avatar successful the corner, past “Settings.” Under the “About” section, you’ll spot an enactment to “Update Play Store.” Meanwhile, Google Play strategy updates tin beryllium recovered done the Settings app, nether About telephone > Android mentation > Google Play strategy update.

In the archetypal batch of Google System updates for the period of December — arriving earlier the caller period has adjacent begun — we larn that Google Wallet is readying a beta trial for securely storing your driver’s licence connected Android phones. For now, Google Wallet’s integer driver’s licence beta is constricted to the United States, and adjacent past lone “select” states are going to beryllium supported.

No details are yet disposable astir which states are included successful the trial oregon however 1 tin enroll successful the beta trial erstwhile it launches. It’s imaginable that the beta trial whitethorn simply beryllium for those enrolled successful the Play Services beta via the Play Store.

Meanwhile, the aforesaid Play Services update is besides acceptable to see immoderate further mentation for the Pixel Tablet. One peculiar Pixel Tablet diagnostic we’ve been tracking is the quality to person “Casts” conscionable similar immoderate different Chromecast oregon Nest Hub. However, it seems the Pixel Tablet whitethorn not always beryllium acceptable to judge an incoming Cast, and you’ll present spot a informing of immoderate benignant if you request to “interact” with the tablet earlier the Cast volition spell through.

On a insignificant note, Nearby Sharing should besides enactment a small spot faster for discovering your friends’ devices aft this aforesaid update.

Google Play System updates for December 2022

Critical Fixes

[Auto, Phone, TV] Bug fixes for Account Management, Security, and Updatability related services.

Device Connectivity

[Phone] Update Cast related settings.
[Phone] Reduce delays successful discovering contacts via Nearby share.
[Phone] Inform the idiosyncratic erstwhile casting to a Tablet instrumentality needing idiosyncratic interaction.

Google Play Store

New Features to assistance you observe the Apps & Games you love.
Optimizations allowing faster and much reliable download and installation.
Continuous improvements to Play Protect to support your instrumentality safe.
Various show optimizations, bug fixes and improvements to security, stableness and accessibility.

Wallet

[Phone] Beta diagnostic to let users from selected US state(s) to digitize their authorities ID/driver’s licence into the Google Wallet for convenient, backstage and unafraid presentation.