- The Google Play Store now has an app quality warning.
- If an app has a potential issue with its overall quality, a yellow alert box on its Play Store page will inform you.
- Warnings include frequent uninstalls, less frequent engagement, and a low user count.
Generally, if you’re looking for an app on the Google Play Store, you can gauge the overall quality of the app by the user ratings and the number of downloads. However, sometimes, these might not tell the whole story. For example, an app might have terrific reviews and millions of installs but has not been updated in years, so it doesn’t work well on newer devices. Likewise, an app might have a 5-star review and a million installs, but there’s a similar app available with 100 million installs and a 4.9-star review, making it the better choice.
Google will now help with this contextual info with its new Google Play Store app quality warnings. Previously, we first spotted these in an APK teardown, but we didn’t know what the quality warnings themselves would look like. Now that the feature is live for some users, we know.