To help ensure the safety of children and prevent access to potentially harmful content, apps meeting the descriptions below are required to use the Play Console functionality and tools to block minors:
- Apps that facilitate Real Money Gambling, Games, and Contests.
- Apps whose core functionality is to facilitate matchmaking or dating. Apps where matchmaking or dating is an incidental feature are not required to block minors, provided they implement appropriate age-gating safeguards to prevent minors from accessing those specific features.
- Apps whose core functionality is to facilitate randomly connecting users to spontaneously communicate with people they do not know.
- Apps whose core functionality is for users to communicate anonymously where the identity of one or more users is deliberately hidden.