This notice was visible when I installed an app outside of Play store
Were you previously able to update apps you didn’t install from google play through google play lol?
this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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Kinda recent change but yeah you could get updates from google play after installing an apk. It was useless for me, as most my apps that i downloaded from intermet were either modded (stripped from ads, infinite money in games, etc.) or weren't available in play store anyway(fdroid apps, self published apps)
Were you previously able to update apps you didn’t install from google play through google play lol?
I'm pretty sure not.
Was at least the case for the two apps I have installed that are also listed in the playstore. Didn't stop google from trying (and then failing, as some certificates didn't match).
Recognizing that beforehand is actually an improved behaviour.
But that's not bad. "No updates from google" is what I actually want.
Updates come from the free world's repositories.
That's good behaviour? It respects your choice of Store, and only updates the app via the Play Store if you explicitly request it.
What do you mean? Isn't this desired behavior? If I install an app from f-droid, its updates also come from f-droid and I don't want google to touch it or take over the installation.
Why would an app store show apps it doesn’t manage? /s
Honestly though this is dumb. If the app is installed from Fdroid or another store/repository, that’s where it should be managed.
On my Galaxy S10, the Galaxy Store likes to “steal” apps from the Play Store. I don’t care who updates it though. But I never installed anything from the Galaxy Store, except Good Lock and its modules, but it’s updating Firefox? What even is that?
My iPhone’s App Store straight up ignores sideloaded apps, though I haven’t messed with any since Apple started allowing emulators. I really just wanted Delta and now that is in the App Store. And RetroArch but I really don’t use it (I should but I’m lazy).
Not saying Apple does it better. Like with AI, Apple just doesn’t know any better. Neither platform annoys me enough to push me into the other camp.
There's a third and fourth camp though. People just don't care. GrapheneOS and the other degoogled androids, or Linux phones.
And another store managing your elsewhere installed apps does benefit them. Data, pure lovely nice data. For free. From people who pay to do so.
Having one company fuck my privacy sideways is already enough, but companies competing against each other in the very same hardware is way too much for my liking.
a lot of them will straight up refuse to open without the play store at all. dunno if there's a worlaround yet.
yiiikes.