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

Takes up too much space and no matter what you do, clearing the catche and the data, soon the app will take up 1 Gigabyte of space. Can't even access it to see what is taking up all the space. Takes up battery like a 15 Gigabyte app. Also doesn't allow you to uninstall or disable it if you want too even though you should be able to. Half of the positive reviews for this app are talking about an entirely different app.

Accesses GPS data even without permission to do so. I understand Google bundles location with WiFi to mask their privacy eroding mapping of access points via user devices for the high accuracy mode they annoy users about enabling, but if "Location" is turned off in app permissions its pretty skeevy for a Google service to immediatly access gps location the moment I enable it. Google, this, and many, many, MANY other reasons, are why people do not trust you. Its because you cannot be trusted....

Terrible. Since the last update it drains the battery, and makes my phone hot. It has prevented me from adding google accounts. Apps constantly crash. It also has randomly crashed the phone! I can't make calls or receive calls unless I restart the device. All these google apps collectively have made using my phone a living nightmare. Phones are not only a source of security but we use them essentially as our wallet and as our PII given that we use our numbers & push notifications to authorize.