Download Google Play services APK

By Google Inc. since 2014-10-03

Version: Varies with device

‧

update: 4 years

3.9

11.9M Reviews
39.35MB
PEGI 3+

Rated for PEGI 3+
1B+

Installs

Permission required

Development tools
- Retrieve system internal state: Allows the app to retrieve internal state of the system. Malicious apps may retrieve a wide variety of private and secure information that they should never normally need.
- Read sensitive log data: Allows the app to read from the system's various log files. This allows it to discover general information about what you are doing with the device, potentially including personal or private information.
App information
- Retrieve running apps: Allows the app to retrieve information about currently and recently running tasks. This may allow the app to discover information about which applications are used on the device.
- Run at startup: Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the device and allow the app to slow down the overall device by always running.
Accounts
- Find accounts on the device: Allows the app to get the list of accounts known by the device. This may include any accounts created by applications you have installed.
- Add or remove accounts: Allows the app to perform operations like adding and removing accounts, and deleting their password.
- Create accounts and set passwords: Allows the app to use the account authenticator capabilities of the AccountManager, including creating accounts and getting and setting their passwords.
- Use accounts on the device: Allows the app to request authentication tokens.
- Read google service configuration: Allows this app to read Google service configuration data.
Personal information
- Read your own contact card: Allows the app to read personal profile information stored on your device, such as your name and contact information. This means the app can identify you and may send your profile information to others.
- Modify your own contact card: Allows the app to change or add to personal profile information stored on your device, such as your name and contact information. This means the app can identify you and may send your profile information to others.
- Read calendar events plus confidential information: Allows the app to read all calendar events stored on your device, including those of friends or co-workers. This may allow the app to share or save your calendar data, regardless of confidentiality or sensitivity.
- Read your contacts: Allows the app to read data about your contacts stored on your device, including the frequency with which you've called, emailed, or communicated in other ways with specific individuals. This permission allows apps to save your contact data, and malicious apps may share contact data without your knowledge.
- Modify your contacts: Allows the app to modify the data about your contacts stored on your device, including the frequency with which you've called, emailed, or communicated in other ways with specific contacts. This permission allows apps to delete contact data.
- Write call log: Allows the app to modify your device's call log, including data about incoming and outgoing calls. Malicious apps may use this to erase or modify your call log.
- Body sensors (like heart rate monitors): Allows the app to access data from sensors you use to measure whatâs happening inside your body, such as heart rate.
Location
- Approximate location (network-based): Allows the app to get your approximate location. This location is derived by location services using network location sources such as cell towers and Wi-Fi. These location services must be turned on and available to your device for the app to use them. Apps may use this to determine approximately where you are.
- Precise location (gps and network-based): Allows the app to get your precise location using the Global Positioning System (GPS) or network location sources such as cell towers and Wi-Fi. These location services must be turned on and available to your device for the app to use them. Apps may use this to determine where you are, and may consume additional battery power.
Messages
- Read your text messages (sms or mms): Allows the app to read SMS messages stored on your device or SIM card. This allows the app to read all SMS messages, regardless of content or confidentiality.
- Receive text messages (mms): Allows the app to receive and process MMS messages. This means the app could monitor or delete messages sent to your device without showing them to you.
- Receive text messages (sms): Allows the app to receive and process SMS messages. This means the app could monitor or delete messages sent to your device without showing them to you.
- Send sms messages: Allows the app to send SMS messages. This may result in unexpected charges. Malicious apps may cost you money by sending messages without your confirmation.
Phone calls
- Directly call phone numbers: Allows the app to call phone numbers without your intervention. This may result in unexpected charges or calls. Note that this doesn't allow the app to call emergency numbers. Malicious apps may cost you money by making calls without your confirmation.
- Directly call any phone numbers: Allows the app to call any phone number, including emergency numbers, without your intervention. Malicious apps may place unnecessary and illegal calls to emergency services.
- Modify phone state: Allows the app to control the phone features of the device. An app with this permission can switch networks, turn the phone radio on and off and the like without ever notifying you.
- Reroute outgoing calls: Allows the app to see the number being dialed during an outgoing call with the option to redirect the call to a different number or abort the call altogether.
- Read phone status and identity: Allows the app to access the phone features of the device. This permission allows the app to determine the phone number and device IDs, whether a call is active, and the remote number connected by a call.
Other
- Read call log: Allows the app to read your device's call log, including data about incoming and outgoing calls. This permission allows apps to save your call log data, and malicious apps may share call log data without your knowledge.
- Send sticky broadcast: Allows the app to send sticky broadcasts, which remain after the broadcast ends. Excessive use may make the device slow or unstable by causing it to use too much memory.
- Listen for observations on network conditions: Allows an application to listen for observations on network conditions. Should never be needed for normal apps.
- Allow bluetooth pairing by application: Allows the app to pair with remote devices without user interaction.
- Hotword detection: Allows the app to capture audio for Hotword detection. The capture can happen in the background but does not prevent other audio capture (e.g. Camcorder).
- Provide an in-call user experience: Allows the app to provide an in-call user experience.
- Manage voice keyphrases: Allows the holder to manage the keyphrases for voice hotword detection. Should never be needed for normal apps.
- Audio routing: Allows the app to directly control audio routing and override audio policy decisions.
- Modify network usage accounting: Allows the app to modify how network usage is accounted against apps. Not for use by normal apps.
- Provide a trust agent.: Allows an application to provide a trust agent.
- Interact with update and recovery system: Allows an application to interact with the recovery system and system updates.
- Reset display timeout: Allows the app to reset the display timeout.
- Send broadcasts to google play.: Can send broadcasts to Google Play requesting app installation and removal.
- Read voicemail: Allows the app to read your voicemails.
- Read google settings: Allows this app to read Google settings.
- Modify google settings: Allows this app to modify Google settings.
Storage
- Read the contents of your usb storage: Allows the app to read the contents of your USB storage.
- Modify or delete the contents of your usb storage: Allows the app to write to the USB storage.
Camera
- Take pictures and videos: Allows the app to take pictures and videos with the camera. This permission allows the app to use the camera at any time without your confirmation.
Microphone
- Record audio: Allows the app to record audio with the microphone. This permission allows the app to record audio at any time without your confirmation.
Network
- View wi-fi connections: Allows the app to view information about Wi-Fi networking, such as whether Wi-Fi is enabled and name of connected Wi-Fi devices.
- View network connections: Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
- Change network connectivity: Allows the app to change the state of network connectivity.
- Connect and disconnect from wi-fi: Allows the app to connect to and disconnect from Wi-Fi access points and to make changes to device configuration for Wi-Fi networks.
- Full network access: Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
- Control near field communication: Allows the app to communicate with Near Field Communication (NFC) tags, cards, and readers.
- Download files without notification: Allows the app to download files through the download manager without any notification being shown to the user.
- Receive data from internet: Allows apps to accept cloud to device messages sent by the app's service. Using this service will incur data usage. Malicious apps could cause excess data usage.
Bluetooth
- Pair with bluetooth devices: Allows the app to view the configuration of Bluetooth on the device, and to make and accept connections with paired devices.
- Access bluetooth settings: Allows the app to configure the local Bluetooth device, and to discover and pair with remote devices.
Effects on battery life
- Allow wi-fi multicast reception: Allows the app to receive packets sent to all devices on a Wi-Fi network using multicast addresses, not just your device. It uses more power than the non-multicast mode.
- Control vibration: Allows the app to control the vibrator.
- Prevent device from sleeping: Allows the app to prevent the device from going to sleep.
Screenlock
- Disable your screen lock: Allows the app to disable the keylock and any associated password security. For example, the phone disables the keylock when receiving an incoming phone call, then re-enables the keylock when the call is finished.
Sync settings
- Read sync settings: Allows the app to read the sync settings for an account. For example, this can determine whether the People app is synced with an account.
- Toggle sync on and off: Allows an app to modify the sync settings for an account. For example, this can be used to enable sync of the People app with an account.
Display
- Draw over other apps: Allows the app to draw on top of other applications or parts of the user interface. They may interfere with your use of the interface in any application, or change what you think you are seeing in other applications.
System tools
- Modify system settings: Allows the app to modify the system's settings data. Malicious apps may corrupt your system's configuration.
- Retrieve app ops statistics: Allows the app to retrieve collected application operation statistics. Not for use by normal apps.
- Interact across users: Allows the app to perform actions across different users on the device. Malicious apps may use this to violate the protection between users.
- Add or remove a device admin: Allows the holder to add or remove active device administrators. Should never be needed for normal apps.
- Update component usage statistics: Allows the app to modify collected component usage statistics. Not for use by normal apps.
- Read frame buffer: Allows the app to read the content of the frame buffer.
- Read subscribed feeds: Allows the app to get details about the currently synced feeds.
- Write subscribed feeds: Allows the app to modify your currently synced feeds. Malicious apps may change your synced feeds.
- Modify app ops statistics: Allows the app to modify collected application operation statistics. Not for use by normal apps.
- Install shortcuts: Allows an app to add shortcuts without user intervention.
- Control system backup and restore: Allows the app to control the system's backup and restore mechanism. Not for use by normal apps.
- Capture audio output: Allows the app to capture and redirect audio output.
- Capture secure video output: Allows the app to capture and redirect secure video output.
- Capture video output: Allows the app to capture and redirect video output.
Hardware controls
- Manage preferences and permissions for usb devices: Allows the app to manage preferences and permissions for USB devices.
Social information
- Read your social stream: Allows the app to access and sync social updates from you and your friends. Be careful when sharing information -- this allows the app to read communications between you and your friends on social networks, regardless of confidentiality. Note: this permission may not be enforced on all social networks.
- Write to your social stream: Allows the app to display social updates from your friends. Be careful when sharing information -- this allows the app to produce messages that may appear to come from a friend. Note: this permission may not be enforced on all social networks.
Voice mailbox
- Add voicemail: Allows the app to add messages to your voicemail inbox.

About this app

Get it on:
Version name	Varies with device for Android Varies with device+
Installs	1B++
File size	41.263.979 bytes
Author	Google Inc.
Update on	2017-05-25
App permissions	view permissions
What's new	7.3 - Maps API v2 for Android Wear - Wear API improvements, including Channel API for bidirectional data transfer between devices - Fit API improvements, including new API for reading aggregated daily totals - Location API improvements, including parameter for setting max wait time - Places API improvements, including ability to retrieve attributions