Play Protect helps keep your phone secure by automatically scanning your apps, including sideloaded apps, to check for potentially harmful apps (malware).

If Play Protect finds a potentially harmful app, it stops the app from running and warns you so that you can uninstall it.

To see the results or to rescan:

1. Open the Play Store app.
2. Touch your profile icon > Play Protect.
3. Review the results of the latest scan, or touch Scan.

Play Protect is on by default.

To learn more, read Google's help.