The Old Google Pay App Is Losing Features Soon - Android

The old Google Pay app, perhaps better known as GPay to some users due to the app icon, is going to be mostly useless in the next couple of months. This morning Google started sending out emails to users of the old app to let them know about some upcoming changes. Those changes consist of [...]

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The old Google Pay app, perhaps better known as GPay to some users due to the app icon, is going to be mostly useless in the next couple of months.

This morning Google started sending out emails to users of the old app to let them know about some upcoming changes. Those changes consist of removing some of the features that make the app a useful tool to have on your device.

Not just any features mind you, but the app's key features. Google is not looking to shut things down right away. But sooner or later, it will have no reason to keep the old app around, now that the new one is available for installation.

Having said that, the new Google Pay is still in early access. So it likely won't be the only option until early access is over. Whenever Google decides to make the shift.

The old Google Pay app is losing its transactional features in April

Right now, you can use the old app and the new app to send, receive, and request money from friends. Both will work for that same purpose. But come April, more specifically April 5, users will no longer be able to use the old app for any of those transactions.

Furthermore, the pay.google.com website will also lose this capability. Users will also lose the ability to use the old app for viewing any recent payments or transaction history. And lastly you won't be able to access or transfer any balances within your Google Pay account.

For clarification though, this does not mean that you will lose any of that balance. You will just need to use the new Google Pay app to interact with it. Since the old app and the website will stop working for this purpose.

Google will also be updating the Terms of Service for the app on this same date. Worth noting is that these changes are only listed as taking place in the U.S., but they will probably be rolled out elsewhere eventually.

The new app offers more features

If you've not used the new app yet, you might want to. It has more features than the older version and overall it's a more useful experience.

For example, you should be able to see your entire transaction history from the time you started using the older app to your most recent transaction with the new app. The older app only showed you transactions for so far back.

And from personal experience it didn't always show ever single transaction. Though, it's not clear if this was intended or just malfunction. In any case, if you use the older app at all, start making the transition to the new app as soon as you can.

The one thing to keep in mind is that the new app also has fees for transferring any money you may receive. Whereas the old app did not.

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