Google Play Store has lost nearly half of its apps since early 2024, dropping from 3.4 million to around 1.8 million. The sharp decline follows stricter quality policies that removed low-functionality, spammy, or deceptive apps.

Play Store’s deleted apps. Google. Google warned last year that the type of apps it would find and delete include those “that are static without app-specific functionalities,

Since the beginning of 2024, the Google Play Store has seen a big drop in the number of apps available to Android users. According to research by Appfigures via Phone Arena, the global app count fell from about 3.