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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 697382
Owner: ----
Closed: May 2018
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OS: Android
Pri: 3
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Enabling Android System Web View

Reported by marinka...@gmail.com, May 13 2018

Issue description

Device name:HUAWEI P9 lite

From "Settings > About Chrome"
Application version:Chrome 63.0.3239.111
Operating system:Android 7.0.0; HUAWEI VNS-L31 Build/HUAWEI/VNS-L31

URLs (if applicable):

Steps to reproduce:
(1) Accidentally disabled my Android System Web View and can't get it enabled again.
(2)
(3)

Expected result: To have it enabled again please.


Actual result:


 
Labels: Needs-triage-Mobile
Cc: pnangunoori@chromium.org
Components: Mobile>WebView
Labels: EV-Triaged
Thanks for the report. Please follow the below steps for WebView --

In Android N the WebView and Chrome packages were combined in order to reduce the update size for users. Updating Chrome also updates WebView. This means that in the Play store the WebView package will appear to be permanently disabled. The Play store WebView entry is only relevant for users with older operating systems, and users who have decided to disable Chrome.

If you need, or are being asked by an application, to update WebView, the action you should take now is to UPDATE CHROME. This should resolve any issues you are currently experiencing.

We would also like to understand what led you to file this bug so that we can reduce the number of users experiencing this issue and work with application developers to direct users to the correct Play store page.

If an application has directed you to update WebView, and sent you to the WebView page in the Play store to do so, please comment on this bug to tell us which application did so.

Finally, if updating Chrome does not stop the application from redirecting you to the Play store, please also provide that information on this bug.

Thanks!!
Labels: -EV-Triaged WV-Triaged
Mergedinto: 697382
Status: Duplicate (was: Unconfirmed)
Duping into original bug ( Issue 697382 ).

Thanks!!

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