Phone your Android smartphone has been crashing since this morning? This is why (and how to remedy it)

Vous utilisez un smartphone Android? Peut-être même un Samsung de la gamme Galaxy (les plus courants)? Vous avez peut-être remarqué que depuis ce mardi matin, il est presque inutilisable.

A big problem at Google

Many applications crash as soon as they are launched, or even do not start at all. Especially Google applications (Gmail, YouTube, Google maps, Google pay...), but not only: other applications like Amazon, for example, may be affected. Regardless of the developer of the app, it is the entire Android system that is involved.

This is enough to irritate hundreds of millions of Android smartphone users around the world, as evidenced by numerous misunderstandings since Tuesday morning:

This was caused by a major outage that affected Google's services during the night of March 22 to 23, and affected a large number of users.

All Android smartphones likely to be hit

According to the specialized Android Police Twitter account, Samsung Galaxy smartphone users are more concerned than others. In particular the most recent ones (S20 and S21, note 20, A50 and A70).

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Other Android phones (Huawei, Xiami, OnePlus, Oppo, Motorola, Pixel...) Are also struck by the problem, because it affects the operating system.

Android webview at issue

The problem would be an update of the Android webview system, which allows web pages to be displayed without going through the browser.

Users themselves have found a solution, which consists of disabling updates of this application, as well as of Chrome, in the settings.

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To do this, go to "settings", then "Applications" (or "Applications and Notifications"), and search the app "Android webview". Click on it, then click on the three points at the top right, and choose "Uninstall updates".

Two patches published

If the applications still crash, do the same with the "Chrome" application. Everything should go back to normal.

You can also download, or then download, the two patches made available by Google on the PlayStore, by clicking here for Chrome and here for Android webview.

On the other hand, the cause and origin of the failure is still unknown.

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