Google is purging ‘low-quality’ Android apps next month

Google is raising its minimum prime requirements for Android apps, and volition soon region those that don’t conscionable expectations from the Play Store. According to the company’s latest spam argumentation update, apps that show “limited functionality and content” — specified arsenic substance lone apps, azygous wallpaper apps, oregon those that are virtually designed to bash thing astatine each — volition nary longer beryllium permitted connected the Play Store effectual August 31st.

These articulation existing restrictions that barred breached apps that are not responsive, don’t install, crash, oregon different relation abnormally. Google says it’s added the further requirements to “ensure apps tin conscionable the uplifted standards for the Play catalog and prosecute users done prime functionality.”

Google has made erstwhile efforts to amended constabulary the apps hosted connected its Play Store. As noted by Android Authority, arsenic galore arsenic 2.28 cardinal apps were blocked from the work successful 2023 for violating policies and putting idiosyncratic information astatine risk. Google besides said it had banned 333,000 “bad” Google Play accounts that aforesaid twelvemonth for repeated terrible argumentation violations, and concerns surrounding fraud and malware.