What are Google Play services? Surely they are familiar to you, yes, it is an application that you have seen once when you have been searching through the settings of your phone, but... what are they for? We tell you.
We will not only tell you what Google Play services are, but also what they bring to your daily life and how important they are. Attentive, which is more important than it may seem.
What are Google Play Services?
Google Play Services is an application that we all have on our Android phone (unless you have a Custom ROM without them, of course). But It is not an application that we can open from our application drawer, and we won't find it easily.
So, if we can't find it in our app box and we can't open it... What is it for? Well easy. It serves to be able update apps from our mobile phone.
That's right, the Google Play services app is in charge of updating applications, both from Google and third parties, and is responsible for checking that everything is updated and up to date. So it is quite important to have it on our phone and not uninstall it.
What apps depend on it?
But apart from keeping your Android mobile phone up to date, it is also what allows certain Google applications such as Google Maps or Google Drive to work correctly, both in the application itself and by accessing it from other places (such as the maps that we find in some web pages, for example).
This is because it optimizes the synchronization of contacts, the location and the operation of the maps, and improves the gaming experience by optimizing RAM, among other things such as allowing the use of Wallet (payment by NFC), Cast with Smart TVs or Chromecast, and show ads in the apps on your phone (this may seem bad, but in the end it is what allows thousands of apps on the Google Play Store are free).
As you can see, it is an essential app for most users. Yes, it is true that people who use Android without Google do not have these services, but because the way they use the phone is usually quite different from that of a common user and there are alternatives for most things.
So you already know do not uninstall Google Play Services from your mobile phone, or you can cause chaos.