{"id":285520,"date":"2026-07-03T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/googles-working-on-new-collections-widgets-for-the-play-store\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T00:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:25:07","slug":"googles-working-on-new-collections-widgets-for-the-play-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/googles-working-on-new-collections-widgets-for-the-play-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s working on new Collections widgets for the Play Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/play-store-collections-widgets-3684215\/\">Google&#8217;s working on new Collections widgets for the Play Store<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/play-store-collections-widgets-3684215\/\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/play-store-collections-widgets-3684215\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-03 17:29:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidauthority.com\">www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edgar Cervantes \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google brought Collections to the Play Store a couple years back.<\/li>\n<li>So far, the Play Store widgets all feature multiple Collections that are shown at once.<\/li>\n<li>Google is now working on single-Collection widgets, to highlight just your favorites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two years ago, the Google Play Store introduced Collections, a method for making it easier to access thematically similar apps by grouping them according to topics like Shop, Listen, Food, and more. It didn\u2019t take long after that for Google to introduce some new Collections widgets, giving us quick access to these categories straight from the home screen. Now we\u2019ve spotted Google working on the next evolution of the Play Store\u2019s widgets, splitting Collections out into multiple, separate widgets.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re reading an <strong>Authority Insights<\/strong> story. Authority Insights brings you all the latest exclusive reports, app teardowns, leaks, and in-depth tech coverage from the Android Authority team that you won\u2019t find anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>For this, we\u2019re looking at version 52.1.26-31 of the Play Store Android app. Just like those Google Contacts changes we just previewed for you, you won\u2019t see any of the updates we\u2019re taking an early look at here showing up on your phone today.<\/p>\n<p>So far, you\u2019ve had your choice of two Play Store widgets through which you could access your Collections. There\u2019s a small one with just icons for individual Collections, or a larger widget that lists your Collections along the left edge. Depending on the size you have these configured, you probably won\u2019t see all available Collection types at once.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_gh\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(min-width: 64rem) 51.25rem, 80vw\" title=\"play store collections widgets 1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/play-store-collections-widgets-1-scaled.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/play-store-collections-widgets-1-29w-64h.jpg 29w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/play-store-collections-widgets-1-1000w-2223h.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/play-store-collections-widgets-1-648w-1440h.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/play-store-collections-widgets-1-486w-1080h.jpg 486w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/play-store-collections-widgets-1-389w-864h.jpg 389w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/play-store-collections-widgets-1-171w-380h.jpg 171w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/play-store-collections-widgets-1-540w-1200h.jpg 540w\" alt=\"play store collections widgets 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/play-store-collections-widgets-1-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AssembleDebug \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>But now Google\u2019s working on making it much easier to focus on the specific Collections that matter most when you\u2019re choosing a widget. With this release, Google has begun preparing to let you choose from individual widgets for all your favorite Collections:<\/p>\n<p>All told, users should have their pick of eight: Food, Game, Listen, Read,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/play-store-collections-widgets-3684215\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s working on new Collections widgets for the Play Store https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/play-store-collections-widgets-3684215\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-03 17:29:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":285521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Google-Play-Store-app-next-to-other-Google-Apps-stock-photo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-285520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285522,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285520\/revisions\/285522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}