Singapore's first app-store review finds 65 apps with harmful content, 24 misrated
By James Konstantin Galvez ( October 26, 2026, 06:34 GMT | Insight) -- Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority found gaps in online safety safeguards across five designated app stores after testing more than 7,000 apps in its first assessment, covering April to December 2025. The review identified 65 apps containing or facilitating harmful content that violated store policies and 24 apps with 18+ content rated below that threshold. Although the stores had baseline protections and age checks generally worked, IMDA found ways to bypass some restrictions and shortcomings in notifying users about their reports or apps they had downloaded that were later removed. Singapore’s media regulator found 65 apps with harmful content and 24 apps with adult content that were incorrectly rated for younger users in its first assessment of app distribution services, highlighting gaps in safeguards across five major app stores....
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