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How to update Google Play Services
Update Google Play Services to experience new features firsthand or fix the existing bugs
If you're using a top-end Android phone, you might not know just how important Google Play Services is to your core experience. From managing your Google accounts behind the scenes to ensuring your Google apps work together, Play Services acts as the glue that holds all of your most essential apps together. It also allows must-have platforms like Gmail and the Play Store to communicate directly with the OS.
It's a miracle your Jelly Bean phone still works, but Google's gonna change that
The end of Play Services updates is the last nail in the coffin for Android 4.1-4.3
If you're still using an Android phone from the first half of the last decade, it might be time to upgrade. If not for all the many already-obvious reasons, then for one more today: Google has just discontinued Play Services updates for all phones running Android 4.1-4.3 Jelly Bean after August 2021. As part of the news, Google has also revealed that Jelly Bean phones now account for less than 1% of active devices as of July 2021.