Overview
- The company banned more than 80,000 developer accounts as it tightened developer verification, pre‑review checks and testing requirements.
- Play Protect scanned over 350 billion apps per day and identified more than 27 million malicious apps originating outside Google Play.
- Enhanced fraud protection spanned about 2.8 billion devices in 185 markets, blocking 266 million risky installs linked to 872,000 unique high‑risk apps.
- Google’s systems blocked 160 million fake ratings and reviews, ran over 10,000 safety checks per app, and prevented 255,000 apps from excessive access to sensitive data.
- Blocked app submissions fell from 2.36 million in 2024 to 1.75 million in 2025 and account bans dropped from 158,000 to roughly 80,000, with further AI investment and broader developer verification planned for 2026.