In 2016, Google updated the Play Store to download only one application or game at a time. Like before, you cannot download multiple apps at a time from Google Play Store on your smartphone. If your smartphone showing the download pending status and you want to clear it from your smartphone, then don’t worry.

Fix Google Play Download Pending Error

Here in this article, we have mentioned how you can fix the download pending status on the Google Play Store. So if you want to clear the download pending status on your smartphone then follow below mentioned few steps:

  •  First of all, Open the Google Play Store app
  •  Now swipe from the right edge of the screen to the left, and select the “My Apps & Games” option
    Here you can see all installed and the currently downloaded apps.
  •  To clear the download pending status, tap on the “X” (cancel) icon to abort the downloading process. You can do this for all apps that are currently downloading on your phone.
  •  Now Press the “home” button and open the “Settings” on your smartphone
  •  In the settings, scroll down to Apps and open it
  •  Now swipe to “All” and choose Google Play Store from the list of all installed application
  •  From the Play Store Info, tap on the “Clear cache” and “Clear data” options to clear app data and cache data.

You are done.

We hope this will fix your Google Play download pending error from your smartphone. Do let us know in the comments if you are facing any difficulties in following those steps.

Amazing Offer Available
Lucky Sharma
Lucky is Senior Editor at TheAndroidPortal & an expert in mobile technology with over 10 years of experience in the industry. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from MIT and a Master's degree in Mobile Application Development from Stanford University.