Google Play Store was initially launched as Android Market. It is a one-stop destination for applications that can be installed on Android operating system. It is a digital media store that has a huge collection of music, books, movies and television programs. It was launched on 6th March 2012. The services that are included in Google Play have been discontinued in favor of YouTube Music in December 2020. After the re-branding to Google Play Store, Google increased their geographical support for each of their services.
Google also announced the Google Play Awards in April 2016. They described it as a way to recognize their incredible developer community and highlight a few of the best apps and games. The award features five nominees in ten award categories. The apps are featured in the dedicated section of Google Play. Google has previously also released a yearly list of apps they called the best on Google Play.
Google released the lists of the best-selling apps, games, movies, music and books, five years after the launch of Google Play on 6th March 2017. Google also introduced a new editorial program named ‘Android Excellence’ in June 2017 for highlighting the apps considered to be of the best quality by Google Play editors.
Now recently users have reported a problem related to Google Play Store. The issue is being termed as declined transaction error. If I have to explain this further, it is a problem where users are not able to make any payments in Google Play Store since their transaction has been declined. Users said that they are not able to pay for anything on Google Play Store. Most of the people said that they have maintained the required account balance on their bank account and still their transaction has been declined.
People also said that they were almost halfway through in completing their transaction and still it was declined in between. Now, if you are experiencing the same issue, there are a few things you can try to fix the issue by yourself –
- Switch off your phone and restart it.
- Remove your saved payment details and add them again.
- Remove your account and add it again.
