Since its implementation, the Google Play rating system has had some important changes. One of the most recent is the customization of ratings according to the device you use. This change had already been announced since last year. Now the platform will show you less useless reviews for your mobile.
Following the same logic of geolocated reviews, this new update was created, which aims to make ratings fairer for users and especially for application distributors. The comments and ratings displayed by the Google Play Store will appear directly when you access the app store.
Google Play Store customizes reviews for each device
With this new change made by the latest version of Google Play , users can see different ratings for an app depending on the device they’re using, whether it’s a smartphone, tablet, smartwatch, Chromebook, or Android Auto.
In this way, app ratings will be more useful . This indicates that Google Play will not show you the same ratings of an app when you use a conventional smartphone, such as a Google Pixel 6a, as when you access the Play Store with an Android tablet. In the latter case you will only see ratings and reviews submitted from tablets like yours.
This ability to filter ratings by device type will make reviews more relevant to a user, helping them decide whether or not to install an app. So this change is a very important step that will help deliver a more personalized Play Store experience .
How to see these new changes
To see these new changes, you must enter the app’s ratings and reviews system. You will see a message indicating that the reviews are verified and are provided by users who use devices of the same type as you. This does not mean that it is exactly the same mobile, but that they are within the same general category .
To better understand the Google Play Store rating system per device, if an app works very well on a mobile phone and has a rating of 4.6, but doesn’t work as well on a tablet and has a rating of 4 ,4, when you visit the review on Google Play from mobile, you will see the note of 4.6. Instead, it will be 4.4 when you visit it from the tablet.
First there were country ratings and now they are also differentiated by device type . What new surprises will the Google Play Store bring later? For now, we just have to wait to find out.
