Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority
I don’t know about you, but on any given week, I manually check for new Google Play System updates, new betas, new monthly patches, or new QPRs at least a few times. But dropping down the notifications shade or opening the app drawer to tap Settings, scrolling down, finding System, and then the Software updates section gets tedious and annoying time after time.
This is especially true when a hot new Android 17 beta is supposedly being released right away, and I have to keep checking for the OTA every few minutes to see if it’s available — well, uh, before Google pulls the rug and tells us the beta will be a bit delayed. But I digress. The point is: I wanted a faster shortcut to get to updates, and I found two tricks to get it.