We hope you’re enjoying the new Google Play Console. With over 350,000 people now using it as their default experience and thousands more providing feedback, the new Play Console is ready to come out of beta. Thank you to everyone who has helped to get it here. This means that the old Play Console will be discontinued starting November 2, 2020. After this date, you’ll be automatically directed to the new Play Console when you log into your account.
If you haven’t tried it already, we recommend that you switch to the new version now. To get started, visit play.google.com/console.
The new Play Console’s responsive design means that you can use it across all of your devices. The new navigation makes it easier to find and understand important features, and we’ve added areas to help you better understand your release status, acquisition performance, and guidance on policy changes.
Thanks to your feedback, we’ve already made a lot of improvements:
- We reorganized the releases area of the navigation. Production is now at the top level, and we’ve grouped all testing tracks together. Internal app sharing has moved to Setup.
- Speed and performance on different browsers have increased, and we’ve made UI tweaks such as making text boxes resizable, introducing unread notices for messages, and refining headers on mobile so they use space more efficiently.
- We launched Inbox, your personalized messaging area featuring helpful information, policy updates, feature recommendations, and more.
- The new Publishing overview page lets you see what changes are in review. Managed publishing gives you control over your launch by allowing you to decide when approved changes are actually published.
- Acquisition reports have been completely overhauled to help you understand your performance over time. This includes discontinuing some cohort-based metrics. These will not be available in the new console. If you want to keep a record of this data, please download it from the old Play Console before November 2. Find out more
- You can still link to your Google Ads account for conversion tracking and remarketing lists, but Google Ads campaign reporting and account notifications will now be available exclusively in Google Ads.
- You can now search across Play Console, making it easier to find pages and features quickly.
- And lastly, we announced that later this year, all Play Console users will need to use 2-Step Verification.
To learn more about the new Play Console, you can:
- Get a high-level overview of what’s new in this blog post.
- Watch these videos for more in-depth information about the biggest changes.
- Take a course on the Academy for App Success to become an expert on the new experience.
- Dive into key features and find supporting information in the new education pages.
Thank you for being a part of our community, and we hope you enjoy the new Play Console!
Posted by Tom Grinsted, Product Manager, Google Play Console
