Security News > 2023 > April > Google Play apps will allow users to initiate in-app account deletion

Google Play will be pushing Android app developers to allow users to delete their account and associated data from within the app.

Google Play has introduced new app account deletion requirements and added Data deletion questions to developers' Data safety form.

"If your app allows users to create an account from within your app, then it must also allow users to request for their account to be deleted," Google explained to developers the rationale behind the move.

"Users must have a readily discoverable option to initiate app account deletion from within your app and outside of your app. A link to this web resource must be entered in the designated URL form field within Play Console."

Users can request the deletion of their account through a link in the app's Google Play listing.

With the new account deletion requirements, Google is following in Apple's footsteps: in June 2022, the Cupertino-based company similarly forced developers offering their apps in the App Store to let users initiate deletion of their account within the app.

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