Millions of apps can be deleted from the Google Play Store at once, here's why

Millions of apps can be deleted from the Google Play Store at once, here's why

Google is working towards making Android as safe and reliable as iOS. In recent months, we have seen many iPhone-like features coming to Android.

Android 15 comes as a complete set of security and privacy features. One thing where Android lags behind the iPhone, however, is the inability to keep dangerous apps out of the Play Store. Although Google Play Protect keeps many users safe, the risks and challenges are increasing more and more.

Meanwhile, Google has taken more serious steps to eliminate this problem. Android 15 is bringing a live threat detection feature, which will analyze apps that take sensitive permissions and interact with other apps and services through on-device AI and instantly identify malicious apps.

Google is currently working on a new plan, under which a large number of Android apps will be said goodbye. Under which Google can remove tens of thousands of such apps from its platform, which are of low quality and do not work well.

There are apps in Google Play Store which are not working properly at present. In addition, some apps are of very poor quality, due to which the user's security experience is also deteriorating. Google has set a deadline of 31 August 2024 to remove such apps.

However, the company has made some changes to spam and minimum quality standards. By which the quality of the app and its experience can be improved. In Google's new policy, it is mentioned that apps with little content and not properly designed will be removed.

This includes apps that only contain written content, single wallpaper apps. There are complaints that such apps are not installed properly. Also, there are crashes after installing. According to Google, the app should be stable, responsive and have a good user experience.

After all, the app listed in the app store should have good quality and user experience. Earlier, in 2023, Google removed 2.28 million apps from the Play Store for violating the policy. It also canceled the submission of two lakh applications.

Google's new move is expected to affect many popular apps. which have been downloaded in millions. Google has given six weeks time to the developers to make their app standard, within that period the app should be made user friendly and secure. Otherwise, after 31st August, low quality and unsafe apps will be removed from Google Play Store.