Google is doing away with Play Store app listings that look like scams

Google has announced a new policy and guidelines for the Play Store that focuses on making app listings more accurate and clean, making them less terrible to look at. The new guidelines also affect screenshots and videos that are posted with the app listing and are meant to demonstrate the app’s features and functionality. These new guidelines are going to come into force in the second half of 2021 and more specific details about how the new policies are going to be enforced for app titles, icons and descriptions will be shared later this year.

Google explained in a blog post that the new app metadata policies will ban a whole bunch of ‘tricks’ app developers use to make their app listings stand out.