If you happened to notice a handful of your Android apps crashing yesterday, you are not alone. An issue with the Android Webview System component caused some sadness, however it’s not going to be either worried about. Of course, Google is already ready, and you’ll want to take advantage of it right away, just in case happen other issues with your apps.
You just have to fire up the Play Shop app, tap on the hamburger icon in the top left corner, tap on it “My apps & games,” and make sure you include any available ones updates for Android System WebView. Similarly, you need to install the latest update to Google Chrome. When you have both on your Android, you shouldn’t have any other problems with randomly dropping apps – at least, none based on this beast.
Going forward, if you come across it a similar problem, is one of the first things you can do take a look is nothing update your device since you last lived remember to work in a more stable condition. You should be able to view your list of updated apps and system parts by clicking on the Installed tab from the same “My Apps & games” window:
In this case, you may have noticed yesterday that the very part of the system – Android System WebView – has recently been updated. While you may not have thought about finding out if this was due to your many app crashes, turn it off to see if that helped (spoiler: it did) has been one of the solutions.
Without any other issue, like a regular system update, it is a reason that something used by many apps, as part of a system, could be caused by several unrelated apps falling apart. If not suddenly upgrade your phone a a strange hardware issue that she iss causing the crashes, blaming software – in particular, something within Android OS itself – is like a logical move.
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I have a Pixel, and to uninstall those updates, I had to visit Settings> Apps & notifications> See All [number] apps. I would then tap on the app or part, tapping on the three-dot icon in the top right corner and select Uninstall an update. The steps may be specific to your Android different. Here’s how to do it on Samsung, for example:
It’s something to keep in memory of the next time you come across an appearance phone-breaking bug – iit is possible that updating your part that you do not know about could be due to your problems. Think about what might have changed since your phone last worked, and change accordingly. Alternatively, await official settlement.