New Play Store warning affects millions.
Update: Republished on April 29 with major Play Store change as apps are removed.
Google has quietly changed how apps run on your phone. Starting next month, the Android-maker will let apps work differently depending on your phone. The bad news is this could see finance, messaging and other apps stop working properly for you. And the latest data suggests this affects more than half of all users.
This is being driven by the Play Integrity API, which Google says “is an essential tool to help protect your business from abuse such as fraud, bots, cheating, and data theft,” with “apps that use Play Integrity features to detect suspicious activity seeing an 80% drop in unauthorized usage on average compared to…