Find what you need with Google
Google App - Find What Matters to You
"Google" is an Android app that keeps you informed about topics that matter to you, providing quick answers and personalized updates through Discover. You can search for nearby shops, live sports scores, movie times, and more, all while benefiting from an improved experience even with unstable connections. Enjoy tailored content based on your interests and hobbies as you explore the web like never before.
App stats
By: Google LLC
Users: 16,271,182,666
44.06M Rating: 4.10 
29,441 new ratings
(27,430,371)
Creation date: 2010-08-12
Email: ap*****@google.com
URLs: Website ,Privacy policy
Permissions
Device & app history: retrieve running apps, read your Web bookmarks and history
Cellular data settings: change/intercept network settings and traffic
Identity:
- find accounts on the device
- add or remove accounts
- read your own contact card
Calendar: read calendar events plus confidential information, add or modify calendar events and send email to guests without owners' knowledge
Contacts:
- find accounts on the device
- read your contacts
- modify your contacts
Location: approximate location (network-based), precise location (GPS and network-based)
SMS:
- read your text messages (SMS or MMS)
- send SMS messages
- edit your text messages (SMS or MMS)
Phone:
- directly call phone numbers
- directly call any phone numbers
- read call log
- read phone status and identity
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Camera: take pictures and videos
Microphone: record audio
Wi-Fi connection information: view Wi-Fi connections
Device ID & call information: read phone status and identity
Other:
- choose widgets
- allow Bluetooth pairing by Application
- Hotword detection
- capture audio output
- provide an in-call user experience
- download files without notification
- interact across users
- manage preferences and permissions for USB devices
- manage voice keyphrases
- control media playback and metadata access
- Audio Routing
- update component usage statistics
- retrieve running apps
- adjust your wallpaper size
- prevent app switches
- Preload results
- receive data from Internet
- Permission to write Sound Search matches
- view configured accounts
- contacts data in Google accounts
- Read Google settings
- Modify Google settings
- view network connections
- pair with Bluetooth devices
- access Bluetooth settings
- send sticky broadcast
- change network connectivity
- allow Wi-Fi Multicast reception
- connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi
- expand/collapse status bar
- control flashlight
- measure app storage space
- full network access
- change your audio settings
- control Near Field Communication
- read sync settings
- run at startup
- set wallpaper
- draw over other apps
- use accounts on the device
- control vibration
- prevent device from sleeping
- modify system settings
- set an alarm
- write web bookmarks and history
- install shortcuts
- read Google service configuration
Ranking
# 7
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App summary
The Google app keeps you in the know about things that matter to you. Find quick answers, explore your interests, and stay up to date with Discover. The more you use the Google app, the better it gets.
Search and browse:
- Nearby shops and restaurants
- Live sports scores and schedules
- Movies times, casts, and reviews
- Videos and images
- News, stock information, and more
- Anything you’d find on the web
Get personalized updates in Discover*:
- Stay in the know about topics that interest you
- Start your morning with weather and top news
- Get updates on sports, movies, and events
- Know as soon as your favorite artists drop new albums
- Get stories about your interests and hobbies
- Follow interesting topics, right from Search results
Unstable connection?
- Google will automatically optimize results to improve loading on bad connections
- If Google cannot complete a Search, you’ll get a notification with the search results once you regain connection
Learn more about what the Google app can do for you: http://www.google.com/search/about
For users of some Wear devices, the Google Assistant features on your watch are also provided by the Google app
*some features of Discover might not be available in all countries
User reviews
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews.
Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate,
spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Dependable and ready to use when needed
- Makes tasks easier across multiple devices (phone, tablet, computers)
- Convenient widget for quick searches
Cons
- Frequent crashes and instability issues
- Bugs affecting essential functions like Google Assistant and Discovery
- Difficulty in accessing features that used to be easily available
Most mentioned
- App crashes frequently
- Issues with the Google Assistant not functioning properly
- Problems with updates causing various functionalities to break
User reviews
Google Maps navigation no longer gives street and highway names, only says "turn left or turn right" forcing me to use another navigation app that gives definitive information like Google Maps USED to. Also, the weather app for reasons unknown disappeared to the background, replaced by Pixel Weather on my desktop, I don't how to get Google Weather back on my desktop, being that Google provides ZERO tech support now, I don't know how to correct these issues.
by 
Johnny Barnhill, 2024-12-01
Johnny Barnhill, 2024-12-01The weather app/widget keeps changing my location and it's very frustrating. I have only ever entered a single location and that's the weather I'd like to see. But almost every time I open it, it's showing me weather for some other places and I have to change it back to where I want to see. I can't figure out how to fix it. Thank you for the fast response. When I type that link in it tells me there aren't many results and doesn't show me a help page. I tried to just do a search and find nothing.
by 
Adrian Trumbach, 2024-11-30
Adrian Trumbach, 2024-11-30The absolute epitome of love-hate relationships. Sometimes smart as heck, sometimes presumptuous and assuming. Navigating is usually spot-on and when it isn't, who's to say it's the fault of the app or something else. Auto archiving and automatic changing of things within the photo program is completely not cool. The idea of apps modeling your behaviors and then doing predictive things for you is completely ridiculous. Who do you want in charge of your phone? You or an app?
by 
A Google user, 2024-11-29
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