Google’s mission to make Android more like iPhone continues, at least when it comes to security and privacy, narrowing the gap. Android 15 moves the bar significantly, with a raft of updates including AI-based live detection of malicious apps and even cellular network defense. But there are also huge changes coming to Play Store.

The Play Store hosts millions of apps, and it looks like Google is working on a way to warn users about potentially low-quality apps.

The Google Play Store is working on a new filter in Settings to avoid certain app types in recommendations and searches. There's some ambiguity about what this filter is supposed to do, with Google's support page document not live yet.

The Play Store app purge focuses on lower-quality, likely higher-risk apps, most of which are free but which open users to malware or fraudulent ads or subs. And now, even when apps have not yet been flagged by Google,

Despite Google's tight control over the apps and games that make it to the Google Play Store, poor quality and shady apps slip through. Users are often fooled into downloading scammy or poorly developed apps,