It’s Official: Google Play Store Now Downloads 2 Apps At Once

After on-and-off testing for the past couple of years, Google is now rolling out a feature we’ve all been waiting for. This new update of the Google Play Store will now allow users to download more than one app at a time.

So, if you want to see it in action, all you need to do is just try downloading two apps at the same time and see how they download and install concurrently instead of first waiting for one to complete.

You can also see their progress in the Play Store as well as on your home screen. This update behavior only works on new installs and only for two at a time. In comparison, iOS’s App Store can handle three downloads and installs at the same time.

As of right now, Google Play Store simultaneous downloads do not apply to any application updates. This means that while you can download more than one app at the same time, updating still gets at them one at a time.

We hope that Google is just beginning with this one and in the future, we will see this feature come to the application updates too.

For reference, currently, this change is only applicable to many Pixel phones and tablets running on Android 14 with Play Store Version 40.6.31 running on them.