We’ve seen a clear impact from our safety efforts on Google Play. In 2025, we deployed advanced AI-powered defenses to combat apps that cause real-world harm, such as malware, financial fraud and more. We prevented over 1.75 million policy-violating apps from being published on Google Play and banned more than 80,000 bad developer accounts that attempted to publish harmful apps.
We also continued to improve our protections for the broader Android ecosystem by expanding Google Play Protect, which now scans over 350 billion Android apps daily. We launched real-time security measures like in-call scam protections to help keep users safe from scams, fraud and other threats.
To learn more about how we’re helping keep Android users safe on Google Play and beyond, read the Google Security blog.
How we kept the Google Play & Android app ecosystems safe in 2025
Discover how we invested in AI-powered protections and real-time defenses while reducing friction for developers and providing them with tools to safeguard their businesses.
