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March 27, 2026

[Updated] Google Play Store “/work” page now deprecated

  • March 27, 2026
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*Title updated 22 May, 2026 - the “/work” page has now been deprecated. If you have any additional questions please do share below. 

 

Originally posted: 27 March, 2026

 

The app browsing page at Play Store for Work (“/work” page) is scheduled for deprecation on May 15, 2026 (please note this has been extended from April 15, 2026 to provide you with more transition time - thank you to those of you in the community who provided initial feedback).

 

This page was primarily used for browsing and approving apps and the feature became obsolete with the deprecation of the app "Approval" method on September 30, 2025. 

 

After May 15, 2026, administrators who visit play.google.com/work will be automatically redirected to the Admin Settings page according to the Organization type:

 

For any other use cases, such as searching for managed apps or app information (which we know some of you like to do), our recommendation is to utilize the iFrame via your EMM console for accessing Managed Google Play. Please be assured that all search and exploration capabilities for managed applications remain fully available.

 

Here’s some tips and tricks using the iFrame:

  • To get your organization ID, click on this icon (in the top right corner):
  • Use the side panel and click ‘Private Apps’ to see a list of your private applications.
  • When searching for your private apps in Managed Google Play, use the app's package name (if you know it) instead of its title. For example, enter pname:app.package.name in the search bar.

 

Thank you for your time and if you have any additional questions please share below. 

 

Android Enterprise Team

    6 replies

    CDoverspike
    CDoverspike
    New Member
    April 3, 2026

    How do I add apps to the google play store after it’s depreciated now?

    mattdermody
    mattdermody
    Level 3.0: Honeycomb
    April 3, 2026

    Presumably just through the iFrame that is rendered within your respective EMM console. 

      paul_price
      paul_price
      Level 1.5: Cupcake
      April 22, 2026

      This site is the  our only way to unapprove apps into our Managed play store. While we can still approve or add apps via Workspace one we cannot unapprove apps in Workspace one. So with this site deprecated we are no longer able to remove unwanted apps from our managed play store. So once an app is added it will remain in our manage play store. This may be concerning if we find an app has become a security risk. 

      Alex_Muc
      Alex_Muc
      Level 3.0: Honeycomb
      April 22, 2026

      Which version of WS1 UEM are you using?
      In WS1 UEM, you can completely delete public apps from the console independently of Managed Google Play. The “Approve / Unapprove / Import from Play” feature was deprecated quite some time ago and is no longer available in the UI in current versions of WS1 UEM.

      https://kb.omnissa.com/s/article/93986

        paul_price
        paul_price
        Level 1.5: Cupcake
        April 22, 2026

        Hi Alex_Muc

        The feature in WS1 UEM allowing “Approve / Unapprove / Import from Play”  is no longer available, App Preferences was also removed. This hasn’t been available for some time now. We are on version 2506.

        KitKat Gecko
        KitKat Gecko
        New Member
        April 23, 2026

        This is bad news for us. From my point of you, we are loosing the visibilty from this page, where the iFrame in Intune for example is not good. I really love the easy overview I could get on the website to check when (like the date) an app was approved/added to the tenant or to check the URL to have quick access to the App ID. This is not possible with the iFrame build in Intune and will be missed by me a lot. 

        ivanvroom
        ivanvroom
        Level 1.5: Cupcake
        May 13, 2026

        SOTI MobiControl does not have an option for iFrame. I can add apps from PlayStore, they are visible on devices but user is able to install it only after I approve it via /work website.

        How should we manage to approve apps?

        Lizzie
        LizzieCommunity ManagerAuthor
        Community Manager
        May 14, 2026

        Hello ​@ivanvroom, 

         

        Lovely to meet you. 

         

        Since September 2025, the app approval process via the iframe has actually been deprecated - you can read a bit more about this in our developer docs (but if you have any specific question please do share). 

         

        My understanding is that SOTI does use the iframe, are you able to see this via your SOTI console? 

         

        ( ​@Moombas ​@mattdermody I wonder if you might be able to provide any additional guidance here please?) Thanks so much. 

         

         

         

        Welcome to the Community everyone!
        ivanvroom
        ivanvroom
        Level 1.5: Cupcake
        May 14, 2026

        Hi Lizzie, thank you very much for your answer.

        When we want to add an app from the Google Play Store to be available to our users/devices, SOTI indeed opens an iframe with Managed Google Play Store for our organisation.

        From there, we can only “Select” an app and it will become available for our assigned devices.

        But when a user tries to install an app, it gets an error: “Your administrator has not given you access to this item”.

        We can grant this access only via play.google.com/work webpage.

        Don’t get me wrong, we are not pointing fingers at you :) We just want to know who we should contact to resolve this after 5/15.

        Thanks!

        Michael Kong
        Michael Kong
        Level 1.6: Donut
        May 26, 2026

        Hi Lizzie, 

        Thanks for the information and I am following the advice to use Google Play EMM API embedded iFrame to replace the deprecated "/work". However, the suggested replacement - Google Play EMM API also deprecated  the "Approval" workflow, and replaced it with a "Select" workflow.  (https://developers.google.com/android/work/deprecations#recommended_alternative) . In the recommended alternative, Google said I need to get the iFrame "selected" apps into the devices policy, and that will make the apps available for install. There is very little information on the “Select” workflow, especially on the alternative solution to the deprecated “approve” button at the UI side, “approve” call  on the API side.  We used be able to see the approved apps with /work page, now I am not sure where to see the approved apps with iFrame “Select” workflow.  Once I put the select apps into the policy in our code, how do google know about the apps and their selected status?  

        Michael Kong
        Michael Kong
        Level 1.6: Donut
        June 15, 2026

        I have added logging to my code, my policy includes previously “approved” apps before the deprecate and the newly added apps with the “select” mode. The code throws errors saying the app grab I added via select mode is not approved by the enterprise; thus it failed the phone provisioning process.  

        Error: The product app:com.grabtaxi.driver2 is not approved by the enterprise.

        The error message looks coming from Google, clearly Google is expecting the apps to be in the “approved” status.  The apps added via iFrame select mode CAN NOT be installed to the phone without the approval. 

        EckerdIntune
        EckerdIntune
        New Member
        June 11, 2026

        Our company used to rely on the play.google.com/work site to deploy new Managed Google Play apps through Intune. Intune does have an iFrame for deployments, but when I click “Select”, simply nothing happens. What should we do about this?

        Michael Kong
        Michael Kong
        Level 1.6: Donut
        June 11, 2026

        I enabled and tested the so called “deprecated” iFrame Approval workflow. I was able to approve apps from within the iFrame, and the approved apps appeared on my test phone and were ready for installation. The only concern is that Google has officially deprecated this workflow. However, despite the deprecation notice, everything is still functioning as expected, so it does not appear deprecated at this time. 

        Another workaround is changing the url to “/adminsettings”. That works too.  

        I want to get the “Selected” workflow working as it is the recommended solution.  It is unclear whether Google automatically approves the selected app and makes it available as an approved app, or whether someone at my company with the appropriate administrative privileges must review all the selected apps and approve the selection through a separate process. The Android developer community appears to be relatively quiet on the subject, which I find somewhat surprising.  Given that this transition fundamentally changes how the iFrame integrates with the Play Store and how apps move through the approval process, I would have expected to see more discussion, questions, or guidance from developers who have already gone through the migration.

        Moombas
        Moombas
        Level 4.4: KitKat
        June 12, 2026

        ​@EckerdIntune : Did you report this issue to MS or did you just silently took your workaround, so your issue stayed unsolved and unknown all the time?

        ​@Michael Kong : I guess the reason for it might be it works for others (i hope so as we don’t use Intune for the managed mobiles luckily) as for example inside of our MDM the “select” app approval works pretty fine: “Select” an app in play store iframe, then add it to the relevant app policy inside the MDM and assign that to the relevant devices/groups/… done.

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