Protect against harmful apps
Scan phone for harmful apps
Play Protect helps keep your phone secure by automatically scanning your phone to check for potentially harmful apps.
If Play Protect finds a potentially harmful app, it stops the app from running and warns you so you can uninstall it.
To see the results or to rescan:
- Open the Play Store app.
- Touch
> My apps & games. Do any of the following:
- To see the results of the latest scan, on the UPDATES, look at the message next to
. - To rescan your phone, touch
.
- To see the results of the latest scan, on the UPDATES, look at the message next to
If your phone seems slow
If you’ve scanned your phone and there aren’t any potentially harmful apps but your phone seems slow, try these troubleshooting steps.