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

Google is raising its minimum value requirements for Android apps, and will soon region those that don’t meet expectations from nan Play Store. According to nan company’s latest spam argumentation update, apps that show “limited functionality and content” — specified arsenic matter only apps, azygous wallpaper apps, aliases those that are virtually designed to do thing astatine each — will nary longer beryllium permitted connected nan Play Store effective August 31st.

These subordinate existing restrictions that barred surgery apps that are not responsive, don’t install, crash, aliases different usability abnormally. Google says it’s added nan further requirements to “ensure apps tin meet nan uplifted standards for nan Play catalog and prosecute users done value functionality.”

Google has made erstwhile efforts to amended constabulary nan apps hosted connected its Play Store. As noted by Android Authority, arsenic galore arsenic 2.28 cardinal apps were blocked from nan work successful 2023 for violating policies and putting personification 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.