Google Play Console - How remove an update of published application

Question

i'm desperate. I published the wrong update for an app on the play store by the new Play Developer Console.

No i need to rollback my update, simply REMOVING it and re-publish the previous.

I cannot understand 2 things:

• how remove it from the apps versions menu
• re-publish the previous one

Please help me! Thanks in advance

Solution 1

In previous versions of Google Developer Console this could be possible unpublising the last .apk and enable to production your desired version

but now it can´t be possible.

Note that rollbacks aren’t supported due to the app versioning requirements of the Android platform. If you need to rollback, consider launching a previous APK with a new version number. However, this practice should be used only as a last resort, as users will lose access to new features and your old app may not be forward-compatible with your server changes or data formats, so be sure to run alpha and beta tests of your updates.

You can see the previous releases but you can´t enable again:

You need to create and publish a new release with a consecutive versionCode.

Solution 2

Click on Create Release Like you release a new version, but instead of uploading an apk click "Add From Library", Here you will get all the previous versions of your app, select the version you want to rollback to, then release it after review button.

Solution 3

Just build old app version with new versionCode and old versionName and publish it

Comments

[Simone Campagna]

thanks for the answer :) yes, simply i uploaded a new apk with higher version code and name. This is a bad limitation. In my case the first one version was the 1.0.3 then i upload the (wrong apk) version 1.0.4. So finally i upload version 1.0.5 with the same code of the 1.0.4 one.

[Admin]

@ Jorgesys. Can you see my question ?stackoverflow.com/questions/48563909/…

[questionasker]

I'm using flutter, the problem is now SDK is updated and my apps crash with new build (i never change code for 3 months). any Idea ?

[questionasker]

where's .proto file ?

[desgraci]

and now we have to keep track of the store listing info as well, because we cannot rollback

[hirenhcm]

I initially said it did not worked but it took time for google to update. Above steps work for my for me to rollback my alpha build. Thanks.

[Amit]

Worked for me too, earlier didn't work. Looks like Google pushed an update. Great

[Amit]

Saved a lot of work, this Answer should definitely be upvoted and accepted as an answer

[Amit]

Another Answer in this thread by Vaishakh actually works: Click on Create Release Like you release a new version, but instead of uploading an apk click "Add From Library", Here you will get all the previous versions of your app, select the version you want to rollback to, then release it after review button.

[secretshardul]

Bear in mind, play store will take time to approve your new release. Even if its your old release repackaged.

[user-123]

Does not work anymore - I get: you can't rollout this release because it doesn't allow any existing users to upgrade to the newly added APKs.

[Parag Chauhan]

Any one get any solution because its also showing me can't rollout this release because it doesn't allow any existing users to upgrade

[Csaba Toth]

In the Play Console I'm almost in the finish line but at the "Review and release" step there's an error saying "You can't rollout this release because it doesn't allow any existing users to upgrade to the newly added APKs."

[The incredible Jan]

"just" is funny if you use version control an a build server.

[The incredible Jan]

Sounds like science fiction. :) If I already had a new version I wouldn't need to "unpublish" the current (faulty) app...

[Szymon Kowaliński]

Needs some effort to dig into it, but it's the best possible solution in the current situation

[tgkprog]

this works and should be the accepted answer

[mufazmi]

You can't roll out this release because it doesn't allow any existing users to upgrade to the newly added app bundles.