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Summary
- Google appears to be working on an “interests” system for Play Store app discovery.
- Settings will allow you to control your interests by clearing previous selections.
- We hope Play Store recommendations start appearing in your For You view.
Update, July 21, 2024 (11:24 p.m. EST): Below are some screenshots of the “Interests” feature as it appears in the “For You” tab in the Google Play Store:
We can see that Google features “interests” tabs on the Play Store, ranging from Communication to Productivity and Photography. The “Based on your interests” section appears after you make a selection, showing some popular apps based on your interests, which helps in app discovery.
Original article, July 8, 2024 (12:36 pm US Eastern Time): When a app storeThe goal is to discover the most useful and best apps for users. To do this well, it needs to be much more personal than just highlighting the top ten popular software apps, and successful app stores go to great lengths to recognise users’ interests. Now it seems the Play Store may be getting a little more explicit about how it does this, as we see Google testing a new “interests” setting for app discovery.
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So far, we only have a vague idea of how this might work, but there is still some clear evidence of its nature. Analyzing version 41.7. 16-31 of the Play Store app, we discovered new options coming to the general settings tab that allow the user to manage saved interests. The app explains how these control “what you want to see on Play,” with separate settings for apps and games. Users could also disable interests if they don’t want to use the feature.
Perhaps the biggest question is how this discovery tool will look in the Play Store UI itself. We saw it briefly while browsing for games, but the store hasn’t been eager to bring it back up for us. We think Interests is likely destined for the “For You” tab. For now, the strongest evidence that it exists is in these options in the app’s settings.
We’ll be keeping an eye on how Google Play intends to implement these interests, because the idea has a lot of potential, especially if Google allows users to clearly communicate the type of software they’re most excited to explore. Will the Play Store let you explain this manually? Or will it be more of a case of the algorithm trying to guess what you want? Hopefully, we’ll get the full picture of interests soon.