Google claims that through 2025, it denied over 1.75 million apps permission to be published on Google Play for violating its policies and prevented over 255,000 Android apps from gaining unauthorized access to private user information.
The tech giant’s yearly assessment of Google Play and Android security shows how successful the protections put in place were at preserving an environment with trustworthy developers and law-abiding apps.
According to Google, we’re constantly improving our policies and protections to encourage safe, high-quality apps on Google Play and stop bad actors before they cause harm.
In order to achieve this, the business boosted detection capabilities by incorporating Google’s most recent generative AI models into the review process read more about Google blocked over 1.75 million Play Store app submissions in 2025.
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