Blocks submissionGoogle Play

Gambling, dating, stranger-chat or anonymous-chat apps block minors with Play Console tools

The question The app's core is gambling, dating, random connection with strangers, or anonymous communication. Is Play Console's minor-blocking turned on for it? If dating is only incidental, is that feature age-gated?

A person or a model answers it from the app's texts and screens; the answer is kept only while the facts it saw are unchanged.

Applies when listing:\b(dating|match(making|es)?|random chat|anonymous|strangers|casino|bet|gambl|lottery)

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The rule, in our words

• Age-Restricted Content and Functionality: Apps for real-money gambling, whose core is dating or matchmaking, random connection with strangers, or anonymous communication must use Play Console's tools to block minors; an app where dating is only incidental must age-gate that feature instead.

Okkok never stores the stores' text. Each item above is our paraphrase, and the link is the page it rests on, verified unchanged by fingerprint on every run.

The other store

• Google requires an affirmative minor-blocking mechanism for these app types up front; Apple removes the app only after it becomes objectionable and requires age-gating only for creator content above the app's rating. partial
• Google mandates a minor-blocking mechanism; Apple's 5.3 paraphrase names geography restrictions only. google-stricter

Check your app

pip install git+https://github.com/petresandu-cloud/okkok
okkok audit path/to/app

The report names this rule as google.age-restricted-blocks-minors and says what to do, who does it, where, and how it knows.