Google Play services

Google LLC

About this app

Google Play services is used to update Google apps and apps from Google Play.
This component provides core functionality like authentication to your Google services, synchronized contacts, access to all the latest user privacy settings, and higher quality, lower-powered location based services.
Google Play services also enhances your app experience. It speeds up offline searches, provides more immersive maps, and improves gaming experiences.
Apps may not work if you uninstall Google Play services.

Ratings and reviews

Randomly starts using my location nonstop. So then in order to not murder my battery, I have to completely turn location off or go to my phone's system settings where almost all of the options are disabled for that app (which is arguably an overreach) and uninstall updates to reset it. That fixes it for about a day or so and then it's back. This makes me have to reset my watch for whatever arbitrary reason. Fix your garbage and stop asking asking people to waste their time resetting their stuff.

The app will automatically download games that I haven't chosen. Especially when I'm not using my phone. If there is a way to turn this feature off, it's not clear. Setting for this app are hard to find and it needs all permissions turned on or it might not work right. I have also scanned my device for viruses in malware. No problems can be found when I do the scan, so that is not the problem.

I gave it a 3 cuz I can't gauge how well it does what it claims it's supposed to do. Most of you don't seem to understand it claims to be the signatory, an authenticator for your apps. So you're able to communicate, but integrate without any hold up from various APs. As to its eventual ballooning in size to over 700mb. I simply wipe out its data same as Spam Filter App, every so often, with no ill effect. I don't seem to have your option to delete. Only to disable. Which i haven't tried so far