The Google Play Store is rolling out a redesign to its Games and Apps tabs. The new look swaps the old top-row navigation for pill-shaped tabs and makes For you the default home page. That change is now starting to reach more users, while Books still shows the older interface.
Google Play Store tabs
Before the change, the Games and Apps tabs used For you, Top charts, Kids, Categories, and Premium in Games. That layout put the navigation across the top and a carousel of apps in the header area above a list of apps. Users who rely on those sections will now have to adjust to a different path into the same content.
Top charts and Categories now open their own pages instead of sitting inline at the top. Users must use the arrow in the top left corner to return to the home page. That turns a quick tap-and-scan flow into a deeper browse structure.
For you on Play Store
For you no longer appears as a tab. It now serves as the default home page on both the Games and Apps tabs. That leaves the main entry point intact, but it changes where the user starts and how the rest of the sections are organized.
The Google Play Store also removed the blue pill-shaped container that previously held Google Play Points. It appears to have introduced a new style for badge notifications as well. Readers who tracked points status in the old header should expect a cleaner top area and less of the stacked promotional clutter that used to sit there.
Books keeps old UI
The redesign does not touch Books. The Books tab still uses the old UI, which makes this a partial rollout rather than a full-store refresh. For anyone comparing sections, the split is now visible at the tab level and not just inside the content itself.
A wider rollout means the change should show up without user action as the update reaches more accounts. The open question is whether the Books tab will later get the same pill-shaped navigation or stay on the older design while Games and Apps move ahead.
