Your Android phone is always lying to you: It’s not really up to date

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority If I had a penny for every single time I checked my Android phone for updates and got the all-clear “Your system is up to date” notice when there was actually a hidden update pending, well, I’d have a dollar or so. This issue is so frequent that it’s easily happened a hundred times or more on every Pixel, Galaxy, Nothing, HONOR, realme, or any other phone that has fallen in my hands in the last few years. And no, I’m not talking about Android’s silly idea of not showing updates the first time unless I explicitly tap “Check for updates” — that’s a given at this point. No, I’m talking about the Google Play system updates, which I often forget for months until it’s suddenly April, and my Play system is lagging on the previous year’s September release. So I smack myself gently over the head, realize that maybe this is why I haven’t received some of these newfangled features that Google has been bragging about, and apply the darned update. And now, fina ... Read full article.