{"id":460736,"date":"2022-09-15T13:25:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T11:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=460736"},"modified":"2022-09-15T13:27:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T11:27:06","slug":"google-rolls-out-device-specific-play-store-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/460736-google-rolls-out-device-specific-play-store-reviews.html","title":{"rendered":"Google rolls out device-specific Play Store reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google is rolling out a new Play Store feature that will only show users app ratings and reviews relevant to the type of device they’re using, The Verge reports<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The reviews section of the Play Store now displays a notice specifying that the reviews for an app are verified and are from people using the same type of device as you.<\/p>\n

Device types will include phone, tablet, foldable, Chromebook, smartwatch, and auto interfaces.<\/p>\n

The Verge confirmed that the Play Store showed a user looking at reviews on a foldable device a different set than one viewing them on a smartphone.<\/p>\n

Google first announced the plan to roll out device-specific reviews<\/a><\/strong> in its Play Store in August 2021 and has now enabled the feature as the company gets ready to launch its own tablet and wearable.<\/p>\n

There are also rumours that Google intends to launch a foldable device<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Tapping on the notice provides more details on how reviews and ratings work<\/p><\/div>\n

“This will give users a better impression of the experience they can expect for the device they’re using,” Google said in its initial announcement.<\/p>\n

The tech giant has been working to show users more relevant Play Store reviews for some time now.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Google also revealed that it would show Play Store reviews and ratings more specific to user location.<\/p>\n

Essentially this means that a user in South Africa will see application ratings submitted by other South African users.<\/p>\n

The location-specific reviews feature went live in November 2021.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Apple to add Clean Energy Charging to iPhones later this year<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google Play Store ratings and reviews are now specific to device type and region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":419936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,74940,167,9557],"class_list":["post-460736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-foldables","tag-google","tag-google-play-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460806,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460736\/revisions\/460806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}