Is there a way to be notified when a release is approved in the Google Play Store?

Question

I did not find a way to be notified when a release in the Google Play console is approved by Google team (and then I manually publish it the store) like "google has reviewed the app and it is now ready to publish".

It's annoying to visit the console every hour to know if the review process of my update is approved.

I already searched a solution with CI/CD like Bitrise or even tried to scrape the Google Play Console but no success.

Answer 1

We tried to activate and receive the email notification when publishing state of the app change, but we were never received them and contacted google play support. This is their answer:

You will only receive an email if your app submission or update is rejected. As for when it is approve, you will see the changes ready to publish in the Publishing overview page in the Play console since your Managed publishing is turned on.

Their answer is pretty clear: This is not possible, you can only get notified when the app publishing is rejected.

UPDATE (Apr 17, 2024): after contacting google, we started to receive our publishing approve email, something was broken apparently, but now it is possible to get approvals emails.

Answer 2

As of June 2023, the screenshot from another answer is no longer current.

Here's the updated screenshot:

Answer 3

Notification management

1. Go to Play Console https://play.google.com/console/u/0/developers

2. Choose your developer account

3. From the left menu choose: Setup > Notifications

4. In section App updates check Email

Answer 4

Update: as of October 2021, the "Play console" app is now sending notification when your pending release is approved by Google and ready to be published in the store (even when manual publishing is enabled)

Answer 5

Yup. If you grab the Google Play Console app you can configure notifications in-app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.playconsole