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Lizzie
Community Manager
March 27, 2026

Google Play Store “/work” page to be deprecated

  • March 27, 2026
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Date: 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

3 replies

CDoverspike
New Member
April 3, 2026

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

mattdermody
Level 3.0: Honeycomb
April 3, 2026

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

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
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
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
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.