Google rejected 1.75M policy-violating Android apps and blocked 80K+ developer accounts from Google Play in 2025, down from 2.36M apps and 158K accounts in 2024
Fewer bad actors are targeting Google Play with malicious apps, the company says, a shift that the tech giant credits …
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Google says it blocked more than 255,000 Android apps from obtaining excessive access to sensitive user data and rejected over 1.75 million Play Store app submissions due to policy violations in 2025.