You’ll have at least 30 days from July 12, 2023 to comply with the following policy changes, unless noted otherwise below. For deadlines and resources, go to the Policy Deadlines page.
New policies
To give developers more control over where their apps appear, we’re updating our Device and Network Abuse policy to state that all apps running On-device Android Containers, which simulate all or portions of the Android OS, must respect the new REQUIRE_SECURE_ENV flag. Apps can add this flag to their manifest to indicate they don't want to be run in an On-device Android Container.
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Policy announcement: July 12, 2023
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Keeping Google Play safe for users and developers: June 29, 2023
We’re committed to making Google Play a safe and trusted experience for everyone. With over 2 million apps available on Google Play, we’re continually working on improvements to our app review process, policies, and programs to keep users safe and help developers navigate our policies with ease. This includes: Machine learning detection: We use machine learning to scan apps for policy violations to help us find harmful apps at scale, so we can keep Google Play trustworthy for everyone. Human review: We have teams of human reviewers who manually review apps for policy violations to make sure th…Read more -
Policy announcement: April 5, 2023
You’ll have at least 30 days from April 5, 2023 to update your app to comply with the policy changes below. For more details, go to the Policy Deadlines page. New policies To give users more control over their data, we're introducing a new account deletion requirement under our User Data policy. If your app allows users to create an account, then it must also allow users to request for their account to be deleted in the app and through a web resource. All developers must also update their Data safety form in Play Console, where some information may be displayed on your app’s Data safety sectio…Read more