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What’s new in Android’s August 2025 Google System Updates [U]

The monthly “Google System Release Notes” primarily detail what’s new in Play services, Play Store, and Play system update across Android phones/tablets, Wear OS, Google/Android TV, Auto, and PC. Some features apply to end users, while others are aimed at developers.

The following first-party apps comprise the “Google System”:

A feature appearing in the changelog does not mean it’s widely available. Some capabilities take months to fully launch.


Android System Intelligence V.35 / B.13 (2025-08-28)

  • [Phone] Minor maintenance fixes.

Private Compute Services V.35 / B.13 (2025-08-28)

  • [Phone] Minor maintenance fixes.

Android WebView v140 (2025-08-27)

  • Improvements to security and privacy and updates for bug fixes.
  • New developer features for Google & 3rd party app developers to support functionality related to displaying web content in their apps.

Important: Some features may be experimental and available to certain users.

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Google Play services v25.33 (2025-08-25)

Account Management

  • [Phone] You can now manage storage across Android in one place.

Developer Services

  • [Phone] New developer features for Google and third party app developers to support Maps related processes in their apps.

Google Play Store v47.7 (2025-08-25)

  • [Wear] With this update, you can now find warning messages on detail pages for watch face apps that drain battery.

Google Play services v25.32 (2025-08-18)

Account Management

  • [Phone] With this update, low or full storage alerts from your device make it easier to manage your Google Account storage.

Device Connectivity

  • [PC, Phone] Wi-Fi Sync lets you share and sync trusted Wi-Fi networks across all your devices for easy connectivity.
  • [Phone] With this update on Quick Share, the new landing page now has separate “Send” and “Receive” tabs.

System Management

  • [Phone] With this update, you’ll find an updated open source licensing page.

Utilities

  • [Phone] Autofill users in Japan can now autofill card information with enhanced security.

Google Play Store v47.6 (2025-08-18)

  • [Phone] After your pre-registered games are installed, you can easily find them in the Recently Installed apps list.
  • [Phone] You can now find top trending movies and TV shows in your region.
  • [Phone] You can now auto-install preregistered games when on cellular data.

Google Play services v25.31 (2025-08-11)

Developer Services

  • [Auto, Phone, TV] New developer features for Google and third party app developers to support Utilities related processes in their apps.
  • [Phone] New developer features for Google and third party app developers to support Maps related processes in their apps.

Device Connectivity

  • [Auto] Bug fixes for Device Connections related services.

System Management

  • [Phone, Wear] Updates to system management services that improve Device Connectivity.
  • [Auto, PC, Phone, TV, Wear] Updates to system management services that improve Privacy.

Utilities

  • [Phone] New developer features for Google and third party app developers to support Utilities related processes in their apps.

Wallet

  • [Phone, Wear] Bug fixes for Wallet related services.
  • [Phone] If you’re eligible, you’ll now find an invite to add Pix account in Wallet.

Google Play Store v47.6 (2025-08-11)

  • [Phone] At the top of the Apps tab, we’ve added a new featured format.

Google Play services v25.30 (2025-08-04)

Top comment by Cristian Silvestre Sánchez

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I just noticed that the Google Play links for these apps no longer open in Google Play but in a different window.

From the app info in the settings the same thing happens.

I don't know if it's because of a Google Play update or Google Play services update, since I still have the July Google Play system update.

For example:

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Account Management

  • [Auto] We’ve improved the onboarding and sign-in process for Automotive.

Security & Privacy

  • [Phone] With this new feature, you can now add an optional security question for Remote Lock.

Utilities

  • [Phone] Bug fixes for Utilities related services.
  • [Phone] You can now use the Autofill with Google shortcut on Gboard to fill in credentials and payments faster.

Wallet

  • [Phone, Wear] With this update, you can now access multi-family residential in Google Wallet.
  • [Phone] With this feature, Pix users in Brazil get a tone and vibration after a tap transaction completes.

Google Play Store v47.4 (2025-08-04)

  • [Phone] With this update, quests now give you Play Points when you play and rediscover games you love.
  • [Phone] You can now see paragraph review summaries and review topic chips on details page and review topic level summaries on all reviews page.

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