The tech giant chalked up its success in keeping the Play Store clean to initiatives like developer verification as well as ...

Google has carried out what is being described as its largest cleanup of the Play Store to date.

Google used AI-driven review systems to block 1.75 million policy-violating apps and ban 80,000 developer accounts in 2025, expanding Play Store and Android security enforcement.

Google is using AI to block millions of harmful apps, crush scam tactics, and strengthen Play Protect, making Android safer.

Google says that through 2025, it blocked more than 255,000 Android apps from obtaining excessive access to sensitive user ...

Google said it prevented 1.75 million bad apps from going live on Google Play during 2025, a figure that's down from previous ...

In its latest Android app ecosystem safety report, Google said it prevented 1.75 million policy-violating apps from being published on Google Play in 2025. That is down from 2.36 million in 2024 and 2 ...

Google has removed over 1.75 million fake and malicious apps from the Play Store and locked 80,000 developer accounts for policy violations. The company says the move is aimed at protecting Android ...

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Over the weekend, Google removed Kaspersky's Android security apps from the Google Play store and disabled the Russian company's developer accounts. Kaspersky confirmed the issue on the company's ...