If I buy a Play Store application and change my cell phone, can I pass it on?

If an application has been purchased from the Play Store, it can be downloaded on various devices, in addition to the device that was used for the purchase. You don’t have to buy it for every device you use.

There is no trick involved so that a purchased application can be used on multiple phones. A purchase made in the Play Store is NOT left registered on the cell phone that was purchased. The purchase is recorded in the Google account that was used for the purchase. That said, a purchased application can be downloaded to a cell phone other than the one used to make the purchase, as long as the same Google account is used. In other words, it is not necessary to buy the application again to use it on a different cell phone.

The previously purchased “Tasker” application appears as such on a cell phone other than the one used to purchase it.

The first and only requirement will then be to register the “buyer” Google account on the new cell phone:

• Open the general settings of the Android system.
• Touch on the “Accounts” option or a similar option.
• Select «Add Account»
• Choose “Google”.
• Enter the username and password of the Google account.

Once the Google «buyer» account has been successfully registered on the new cell phone, open the Play Store application. There it will be necessary to display the left side menu and leave the newly added Google account selected. Finally, search for the purchased application. To the right of the name of the application will appear the legend «Purchased». By tapping on it, the “Install” button will automatically be available that will allow you to download and use the app.

Purchases are recorded on the Google account, not on the device used to purchase

As indicated before, it must be clear that purchases in the Play Store are recorded on the user’s Google account, not on the device itself. Therefore, wherever you enter that account, you can download the applications previously purchased with that account.

This way of working of Google Play is not new; It has existed for several years. What is recent is an option that allows the applications, games and other content purchased on Google Play to be shared with the “family”. Apparently this function will allow up to 6 people to share a purchase made in this store. Obviously, in this case each person will have a different Google account. The operation is not entirely clear for now, because, although this option “Family Sharing” has been announced, Google has just started to offer it to some users. In the coming days and weeks this feature will surely be overcrowded and you can see exactly how it goes.

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