lay Protect, the security service that arrived on Android last year, reviews more than 50 billion apps each day, Google claims.
Launched in May 2017, Google Play Protect brings together various security services for Android, many of which have been available for years, but without being as visible as they are now. Mainly designed to protect users from Potentially Harmful Apps (PHAs), it reviews not only billions of apps, but other potential sources of PHAs as well and user devices, to take action when necessary.
Play Protect was designed to automatically check Android devices for PHAs at least once a day, and also provides users with the possibility to conduct additional reviews at any time. Because of these daily checks, nearly 39 million PHAs were removed last year, the Internet giant reveals.