Clicking photos of yourself, your pets, and your family is very trendy nowadays. Due to this, the demand for photo editing apps has also increased. This change in the trend proved to be very beneficial for scammers, data theft, and many more but very dangerous for users. Google has some very serious measures to avoid these types of activities. According to the latest report, a total of 29 photo editing apps are banned from Google because of violating the Google terms and conditions.
These apps got banned from Google because these apps were involved in malware, viruses, redirecting users to a phishing website, and even access photo of users and their personal data as well. The apps were so appealing that so many people downloaded them in a short period of time. These are all photo editing apps. All of them are listed below:
* Art Editor
* Art Filter
* Art Effect
* Art Filter Photo
* Pixture
* Selfie Camera Pro
* Art Effects for Photo
* ArtFlipPhotoEditing,
* Art Filter Photo Editor
* Artistic effect Filter
* Awesome Cartoon Art
* Cartoon Art Photo
* Beauty Camera
* Cartoon Art Photo
* Cartoon Effect
* Cartoon Art Photo Filter
* Cartoon Photo Filte
* Super Camera
* Fill Art Photo Editor
* Photo Editor
* Emoji Camera
* Pro Camera Beauty
* Horizon Beauty Camera
* Prizma Photo Effect
* Magic Art Filter Photo Editor
* Photo Art Effect
* Wallpapers HD
Any developer can develop for Android as it is open source. This is the reason that scammers have easy access to Google play store and they easily develop scam apps and fetch user's data and information through them. For this purpose Google has an efficient and reliable security radar. The Google play store security radar detect these types of apps and add them to banned android apps list so that all user become aware of it. If you have any of the above-mentioned app installed on your phone, delete it as soon as possible to keep your data safe. As the app will keep on fetching your pictures, data, and will keep on redirecting you to phishing website till the time it is installed on your phone.