Validate your native ads for policy compliance

The information on this page is for programmatic ads that use native advanced, which are native ads that use Android or iOS app code.

You can use the native ad validator to determine if your native ad implementation complies with Google Ad Manager policies before publishing or updating an app.

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See policy notifications on test ads

When you activate test native ads that use Android or iOS app code (Android | iOS), the native ad validator automatically checks your implementation and displays a notification that lets you know whether any policy issues are detected.

Issues found No issues found
Example of the native ad validator with issues found Example of the native ad validator with no issues found

Troubleshoot policy issues

You can tap See issues on the notification in your device for details about policy violations and suggestions for fixing them. If you publish the native ad before fixing the implementation issues, you may receive a policy violation in your account.

In addition to using the validator, ensure that all programmatic native ads delivered using custom rendering adhere to:

Turn off the native ad validator

If you have any issues with the native ad validator, you can turn it off.

developer documentation  Learn how to turn off the validator for Android and iOS.

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