It's no secret that Google is cracking down against "sideloading" Android apps—which is to say, installing apps from outside the Play Store. Google Play Protect has thrown up the "harmful app blocked" ...

Google’s annual blog post recapping Play Store and Android protections in 2024 is now available. It highlights new safety measures, like how Google Play Protect cannot be turned off during calls.

Google Play Store’s Play Protect feature could soon get a new Rescan button. It will let users rescan installed apps without uninstalling harmful apps identified in a previous run. The feature could ...

Google will soon be adding an important feature to the Play Protect app. The Android ecosystem’s safeguard against malicious applications could soon let users rescan an app for any threat without ...

In today’s Security Blog, Google mentions that the new feature will prevent malicious apps from accessing user data, including phone storage, photos, cameras, and more. The company says that you can ...

Google Play Store has started rolling out a new “Pause” feature for Play Protect, allowing users to temporarily disable app security scans. Unlike the previous “Turn off” option, the new feature ...

There are just six weeks to run until the start of Google’s drastic Play Store deletion, with thousands of apps expected to disappear. This surprise purge has been badged quality control, but is ...

Ali has spent more than a decade covering consumer technology, with a knack for looking beyond the specs, tinkering with software, and uncovering the bigger stories behind Android, Google, Apple, and ...