The latest Play Services update brings a new security enhancement we had assumed would only turn up with Android 16. But it has now been included in April’s Google Play services v25.14 (2025-04-14).

Google Play Services v25.11.32 beta includes code referencing a new System services section that will seemingly allow you to keep track of updates to important system apps.

Tapping opens the Play Store listing for Google Play services — direct link here — but no update is actually available. The latest stable version is 25.09.33.

We dug into the latest beta version of the Google Play Services app (25.18.31) and discovered that Google is working on a feature to detect bank scam calls. We also spotted an accompanying service ...

Amazon Fire tablets run an Android-fork called FireOS with its own, limited, app store. Fortunately, you can install the Google Play Store.