SEPTEMBER 2020 PCWorld 91built into the Play Store. It’s great when it
works, and not so great when it doesn’t—
especially when the app updates pile up over
a couple of weeks. If you’re constantly
needing to take trips to the Play Store to
nudge your apps to
update, you can try
resetting the app.
Go to the Apps tab
in Settings and find
Google Play Store
and Google Play
Services. Open
them each and tap
the Storage tabs,
then hit the Clear
Cache and Clear
Storage buttons.
That should get
things moving again.
- AUTOCORRECT
NEEDS A LITTLE
HELP SOMETIMES.
Autocorrect can be helpful—and
maddening. Depending on
which keyboard you’re using,
you can find the settings in the
menu to see if anything can be
tweaked (such as offensive
words). If that doesn’t help, you
can reset the keyboard and
delete the words it has learned
to start fresh. (You’ll find that in
either Advanced or Reset.) If you
don’t want to go nuclear, you can eliminate
individual words as they appear in the
predictive text bar by tapping and holding
one. Then either drag it to the trash, or tap
Remove and you’ll never see it again.
Clearing the Play Store’s cache and storage can help spur apps to
update on their own.
Autocorrect needs a little help sometimes.