By Michelle Del Rey
Publication Date: 2025-12-12 17:51:00
Dec. 12, 2025, 12:51 p.m. ET
Android users may be getting a share of a $700 million Google settlement.
Customers could be eligible for a minimum $2 payment depending on how much they spent on the Google Play Store from roughly August 2016 to September 2023.
The settlement website does not state the highest payment offered to customers.
Payments are pending a settlement approval hearing scheduled for April 30. In New York, notices for impacted customers have already been sent out.
Here’s what to know.
What is the Google Play Store settlement about?
A coalition of attorneys general from all 50 states secured the 2023 settlement after alleging Google violated antitrust laws by monopolizing the Android smartphone application market.
Google allegedly maintained a monopoly over mobile app distribution and in-app payment processing for Android devices and used its monopoly power to charge consumers as much…