1, 2022, giving developers time to get updates in order. The new policy won't go into effect until Nov. Users who'd previously downloaded old apps will be able to install them, but the new requirements will help protect unaware users from potential vulnerabilities in older apps, according to an official Google blog post. So, with Android 12 released last October, developers have until October 2022 to bring their apps up to speed - and now Google's new requirements mean that if they wait longer than October 2023, their apps won't be discoverable in the Play Store and can't be downloaded by users running newer Android versions. This builds off Google's existing Play Store requirement that app developers release updates to match the API of the latest Android OS release within a year of that release. It's hiding apps that haven't been updated within two years of the latest Android OS release and preventing users from downloading them. Google is taking another step to clean up the Play Store.
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