If you’re one of those people who always has buyers’ remorse after purchasing an app, whether it’s $0.99 or $9.99, you can now rest assured that your “mistake” can be corrected within two hours of buying an app or game on Google Play Store. At least, that’s what it officially says on their GPS policy page now.
Previously, the refund time was only 15 minutes (although they seemed to have been experimenting with the 2-hour window since last month), which was nearly not enough time to actually install the app, try it out for a few minutes and then decide whether or not you want to keep it. But now you have a little longer to make up your mind on whether or not the app or game was a good buy. All you need is go to the Google Play Store app and go to the My Apps section and look at the app or game that you would like to return.
If the 2-hour period has not yet elapsed by the time you do it, there should be a a Refund button beside the Open button there. If you just see an Uninstall button there, then it means your window has closed. You can still uninstall it if you think it’s really a waste of space on your device, but of course no refund will be forthcoming.
If you sneakily think that you can buy the app, use it for 2 hours, refund it, buy it again and use for 2 hours, then refund it again, Google is on to you. You can only refund or return an app once, and if you’ve decided to buy it again, then you’re stuck with it. You can check out Google Play Store’s return paid apps and games policy on the help page.
