Top Stories: final Play Music update, Apple explains why iMessage isn’t on Android, „Pixel 5a 5G“ confirmed by Google, and more.
Despite having been fully shut down for a few months, Google Play Music received a final update on Android this week. The biggest change is that you can now hide the app from your app list, a feature intended for the many Android phones that came with the app pre-installed in a way that it cannot be removed. This update is meant to address how you cannot uninstall Play Music if the app was preinstalled on your device. In Google’s case, the Pixel 3 and earlier have it as a default application where the only option is disabling from the “App info” page, which is not obvious for most users. On newer phones that have YouTube Music loaded, you can just delete like any other downloaded app. During the ongoing lawsuit between Epic Games and Apple, one point of discussion was the lack of an iMessage app for Android.
