Here's why some Google app updates can’t be sideloaded on Android 11

Looks like it's an intentional change after all

When the Pixel 5 and 4a 5G were released, Google also updated a few of its first-party apps — the Camera and the Recorder, to be specific. But when people with older Pixel phones tried to sideload these to their phones, some ran into an odd INSTALL_FAILED_VERIFICATION_FAILURE error message even though the cryptographic signature matched and there should've been nothing standing in the way. We quickly found a workaround, but we never really understood why the error was popping up in the first place.

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Here's why some Google app updates can’t be sideloaded on Android 11 was written by the awesome team at Android Police.


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