What’s New In Android’s May 2025 Google System Updates [U: 5/26]

The monthly “Google System Release Notes” primarily detail what’s new in Play services, Play Store, and Play system update across Android phones/tablets, Wear OS, Google/Android TV, Auto, and PC. Some features apply to end users, while others are aimed at developers.

The following first-party apps comprise the “Google System”:

• Adaptive Connectivity Services: Search the “All apps” list in Settings and open App info for the version number
• Android System Intelligence: App info
• Android System Key Verifier: App info
• Android System SafetyCore: App info
• Android TV Core Services
• Android WebView: App info
• Device Health Services: App info
• Settings Services: App info
• Google Play Store: App info
• Google Play system update: Settings > About phone > Android version
• SIM Manager: App info

A feature appearing in the changelog does not mean it’s widely available. Some capabilities take months to fully launch.

Google Play services v25.20 (2025-05-26)

Account Management

• [Auto] With the updates, you’ll get an improved car setup wizard UI.
• [Phone] Bug fixes for Account Management related services.
• [Auto, PC, Phone, TV, Wear] Bug fixes for Account Management related services.

Developer Services

• [Phone] New developer features for Google and third party app developers to support Account Management related processes in their apps.
• [Auto, Phone, TV] New developer features for Google and third party app developers to support Utilities related processes in their apps.
• [Phone] New developer features for Google and third party app developers to support Security & Privacy related processes in their apps.

Device Connectivity

• [Phone] With this new feature, you’ll find an updated UI for the Bluetooth device details screen.

Health & Fitness

• [Phone, Wear] New developer features for Google and third party app developers to support Health & Fitness related processes in their apps.

System Management

• [PC, Phone, TV, Wear] We’ve fixed issues related to system management and diagnostics services to improve your overall experience.
• [Phone] With this update, new storage settings help users better understand and manage their storage.

Utilities

• [Phone] With this update, users in more countries can now save their payment card information to Autofill.

Wallet

• [Phone] With this update, digital IDs in Wallet are now available in the new market.

Android WebView v137 (2025-05-21)

• Improvements to security and privacy and updates for bug fixes.
• New developer features for Google & 3rd party app developers to support functionality related to displaying web content in their apps.
• Enables DTLS 1.3 for WebRTC.

Important: Some features may be experimental and available to certain users.

Google Play services v25.19 (2025-05-19)

Account management

• [Phone] With this feature, we’ve added improvements to supervised accounts.
• [Phone] We’ve added infrastructure updates to support an upcoming optional security feature.

Developer services

• [Phone] New developer features for Google and third-party app developers to support Maps-related processes in their apps.
• [Phone] We’ve updated the user interface in the QR code scanner to improve the overall user experience.

Google Play Store v46.3 (2025-05-19)

• [Phone] With the update, you can now find relevant content from your travel and event apps under the ‘Travel’ tab in Play Collections.
• [PC, Phone] You can get more relevant app recommendations when you turn on additional Web and App Activity settings.
• [Phone] With the update to Google Play Inline Installs, you can open apps from other apps with minimal disruption.
• [Phone] With this update, you can now resize panes on the search results page with a draggable divider on large-screen devices.

Android System Intelligence V.27/B.5 (2025-05-16)

• [Phone] Fixing Application not responding bugs.

Google Play Store v46.2 (2025-05-12)

• [Phone] With the update, you can now search content in videos, animations, and other formats on Play Search.
• [Phone] With this new feature, users can choose to get promotional notifications and emails for offers, deals, and more.

Google Play services v25.18 (2025-05-07)

Device connectivity

• [Phone] With this new feature, you can now use cast on standby-friendly devices.
• [Wear] With this update, you’ll see visual improvements to Wear OS-related screens.
• [Phone] New developer features for Google and third-party app developers to support device connectivity-related processes in their apps.

Wallet

• [Phone] New developer features for Google and third-party app developers to support digital wallet and payments-related processes in their apps.
• [Phone, Wear] New developer features for Google and third party app developers to support Digital Wallet & Payments related processes in their apps.

Google Play services v25.17 (2025-05-05)

Wallet

• [Phone, Wear] You’ll now be able to use Google Wallet in more countries.

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