How to Fix Your Android Phone If the Google Play Store Won't Install Apps

I was recently talking to someone who was complaining that his Nexus 5 wouldn't install an app. He said that the progress bar just sat there, not showing a percentage or changing the status to install. It turns out that this is a common problem that many people have had while using their phones.

If you are experiencing this problem, there is usually a very simple way to fix it. Most of the time, people installed an app that was quite large, and didn't realize that they set it to download on WiFi only. To fix this, you must either connect your phone to a WiFi spot or go and cancel the download.

1. Open the Google Play Store
2. Click up at the top left to open the side menu, and go to the "My apps" option
3. Look under the "Downloading..." section, and manually click into each of these apps and click the X beside the status bar to cancel them.

And there you have it. Doing this will remedy the problem for the majority of people. If this does not fix your problem, another solution many people do is to go into the app settings and force close the Google Play store and uninstall the updates. This is just a bit more complicated, and since I've never had to do it on my Nexus 5, I'll leave it at that and let you do the research if you have to try something else.