Manage Android App Permissions to Protect Your Privacy
1How To Manage Android App Permissions to Protect Your Privacy
Some permissions may affect the users private information, or could potentially affect his data or the operation of other application are called Dangerous Permissions. For example, the ability to read the user’s contacts is a dangerous permission. Some other examples are CONTACTS , CAMERA ,CALENDAR, LOCATION, PHONE, STORAGE, SENSORS, MICROPHONE, etc.
Users will gain more control over what permissions are granted to an app in Android 6.0 and Above. Users no longer get to see a long list of permissions when they’re installing an app, but they grant the permission when the functionality is actually used.
When managing an individual app’s permissions, you’ll see a warning message if that app was designed for a previous version of Android. Most apps should continually working fine, anyway — unless you revoke a permission that’s central to any functionality. For example, you won’t be able to take photos from within the Facebook app if you revoke the Facebook app’s Camera permission. You’ll have to grant it that permission again to take photos.