Apps are the nerve center of our mobile phones, without them we would not be able to take advantage of their full power, and they would not be so useful for us. Some apps that sometimes give us certain problems that we are forced to solve. In those cases, knowing the version of the app in question can be very useful.
This week we have seen a widespread problem among a large majority of Android phones from different manufacturers, such as the one caused by the Android System WebView app, which has caused dozens of apps to stop working correctly, regardless of the model and brand of it.
Why do we want to know the version of an app?
Surely it is a question that many of us have asked ourselves, but it has more benefits than we can imagine. In a mobile software and its apps are the key for it to work properly. The normal thing is that an application on our phone can suffer problems from time to time. As with system updates, updating an app can bring significant problems , as has happened this week with the case that we have told you about. In the event that the problem is identified by the developer and shared, there is a possibility that the version of the application that is causing these problems will also be announced.
Therefore, if we know which version is installed, we will have more information at our fingertips . For example, to identify which is the version immediately prior to the one that gives problems, to install it and that those problems disappear until there is a new update that solves everything. Therefore, it is essential information that will clarify things a lot when there are problems with a certain application and we do not know exactly what its version number is and therefore identify if it is conflicting.
How can we know which is the version of the app?
Well, there are several ways to do it, and in no case is it necessary to open the app to know it, contrary to what many of us might think. Because in we have the possibility of accessing that version both from the phone’s home screen and from the settings .
From the home screen
It is surely the easiest way to know the version, since we directly access the information of the app in question to find out what the version number is currently installed. To do this, you have to do the following:
- Go to the phone’s home screen
- Long press on the app icon
- Click on the “info” or “information” button
Once we do, we enter the information screen of the app, where just below the application icon , we have the version number clearly displayed. Therefore, in this way, it will not be necessary to enter the app to know it.
From settings
It really is about accessing the same menu , although this time it is arrived at in a different way than we have seen. To do this, you have to do the following:
- Open the phone’s “Settings”
- Click on “Applications” or “Application Management”
- Enter “List of Applications”
- Find the app you want to know the version of
- Click on the app to access “Application information”
Now we are on the same screen as before, although we have arrived in a different way. In this way we know the exact version of the app without having to go through the help section of the application, for example, which is normally where we can see what the version of the app is. In this way we can easily identify if we have a conflicting version of the application, to then take the necessary measures to counteract the problems.