The day Google decided Android needed a mandatory overnight cooling-off period and a built-in pause for second thoughts, the platform that had spent two decades being the world’s most open mobile ...

Google has announced that with the help of AI, it blocked 1.75 million apps that violated its policies in 2025, significantly down from 2.36 million in 2024. The lower numbers this year, it said, are ...

Google Blocked 1.75M Harmful Apps From Play Store in 2025 Your email has been sent Google used AI-driven review systems to block 1.75 million policy-violating apps and ban 80,000 developer accounts in ...

Google says that through 2025, it blocked more than 255,000 Android apps from obtaining excessive access to sensitive user data and rejected over 1.75 million apps from being published on Google Play ...

The UK is demanding that Apple and Google improve fairness on their app stores. Credit: Tobias SCHWARZ and Miguel MEDINA / AFP via Getty Images First, the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) regulations ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

The Tech Transparency Project identified dozens of apps that can create nonconsensual sexualized deepfakes beyond xAI’s Grok. The Tech Transparency Project identified dozens of apps that can create ...

Mark has almost a decade of experience reporting on mobile technology, working previously with Digital Trends. Taking a less-than-direct route to technology writing, Mark began his Android journey ...

Google app’s Voice Search is finally getting a major redesign on Android. This change modernizes the interface with some subtle tweaks. You will now see a large Google “G” logo at the top center of ...

Elon Musk’s xAI recently weakened content guard rails for image generation in the Grok AI bot. This led to a new spate of non-consensual sexual imagery on X, much of it aimed at silencing women on the ...

Web-to-App refers to the process of starting user acquisition from the mobile web experience and moving to a native app, which can be performed through a variety of marketing and linking techniques. A ...