Google is making sure Android apps let you delete your data and account

 

Google is ensuring that Android applications allow you to remove your data as part of yet another effort to improve data security on the Play Store.  According to Google, users may remove their accounts and data, and app developers are required to offer a data deletion option on Google Play. Additionally, this option to delete accounts and data must be accessible both within the app and externally via the web.

By May 31, 2024, developers must have implemented these data security measures. Google guarantees that data deletion is not restricted to customers who still have the app installed on their phones by offering the ability to erase accounts or data over the web. Play Store data erasure is no longer available. 

New data deletion queries must be submitted by December 7 by app developers:

App developers must provide a form for data deletion requests on the app's listing page in the Google Play store.

Google also stated in a blog post on their official website that they have moved the data deletion information to a more prominent location on the Google Play store for apps. There will be a new badge with information on data erasure inside the app's data safety section.

By December 7th, Google is requesting developers to submit updated data deletion questions in their app's data safety form. Users of Google Play will thus start to notice changes in their app's store listing, including the new data deletion badge, early in the next year.