For the past few months, Google has finally been showing a changelog for its monthly system updates that roll out to Android, Wear OS, Android TV, and other platforms via the Play Store. Today, the March 2022 changelog went live with updates to Play Games privacy and more.
Detailed on a support page, the March 2022 Google Play system update doesn’t have any earth-shattering changes, but it does have a bunch of improvements across the board. Google says that the update contains a “critical” fix for Android, Android Auto, Android TV, and Wear OS with bug fixes for “device connectivity, developer services, safety & emergency, and utilities related services.”
Further, Google says that this update expands on privacy settings for Play Games. While Google doesn’t explain exactly what these new settings are (we’ll update this article if further clarification is revealed), Google says these new changes come with an update to Play Services v22.09. Notably, Google also recently made it possible to change your account for games through Play Games, but the feature works without this March 2022 update (we’re seeing it on Play Services v22.02).
Google’s changelog also cites better “feature education” for devices with NFC/HCE, improvements to the “play-as-you-download” feature on Google Play, and more. The full changelog follows:
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