Android help: What to do when an app just stops working

It is not often that Android apps just stop working out of the blue. But when it does happen, an app update usually does the trick. — Photo: Andrea Warnecke/dpa

BERLIN: In and of itself, the Android operating system, with its massive collection of apps from a wide variety of developers, runs very stably. But of course, exceptions prove the rule and there are apps that stop working, won’t open or constantly crash.

The solution, quite often, is to install the latest version of the app from the Google Play Store, assuming there is one.