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 ...

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.

For years, Google has been working hard to make Android an OS that is as secure as it is functional, without sacrificing the virtues that distinguish it from more restrictive competitors, such as iOS.

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 ...

We tend to take services like Google Play Protect for granted. This is the service that works behind the scenes to make sure that every app you download from the Play Store is safe. Google just ...

Google could soon extend Play Protect to scan PWAs and WebAPKs during installation. This new feature could protect users from malicious PWAs used for phishing and data theft. Google has been silently ...

Google Play Protect is a malware protection and detection service built into Android devices that use Google Mobile Services. Google Play Protect helps protect mobile devices by scanning for malicious ...

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 ...