Google spent years cramming Now Playing into Android System Intelligence where nobody could update it, and now it is a separate Play Store app. This is exactly the right call. The previous UI being described as a 'very old layout' was not an accident, it was a symptom of features rotting inside a black box. At least now the dev team can ship updates without waiting for a system Intelligence drop.
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2026
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