How we kept the Google Play & Android app ecosystems safe in 2024

Google outlines 2024 efforts to secure Android and Google Play, highlighting AI-assisted reviews and policy enforcement that blocked **2.36M** policy-violating apps and **158k** bad developer accounts, privacy controls that curbed excessive data access in **1.3M** apps, and Play Protect defenses that scan **200B** apps daily and identified **13M** malicious sideloaded apps; new protections include Chrome reminders to re-enable Play Protect, call-time toggle locking, and automatic permission revocation, while enhanced fraud protection pilots across nine regions shielded **10M** devices from **36M** risky installs, complemented by trust badges for verified government and MASA-assessed VPN apps and the App Defense Alliance’s ASA standard to raise app security.