Well, users are sometimes met with errors, and this is what happened today as well, with millions of people being affected.
Google apps triggered error messages on Android devices
According to DownDetector.com, Google services have been experiencing outages these past hours, all of which were experienced on the mobile apps. According to user feedback, whenever they tried accessing a Google app, they were met with the following error messages: User reports brought the issue to Google’s attention, which updated their status page to: A few hours later, Google provided a solution to the issue: Updating Android System WebView and Google Chrome via Google Play should now resolve the issue for all users. However, this solution didn’t seem to work for all users, that simply updating Google Chrome worked for them instead: If this does’t work either, one final solution suggested by various users was disabling WebView entirely: All in all, while the bulk of the problem seems to have been solved for the moment, these solutions are worth remembering whenever this happens again, since this isn’t something that happens too rarely. How were you affected by Google’s services being down? Let us know how it affected your use of your Android device by leaving us a message in the comments section below.
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