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Is there a way to distinguish permission to use the microphone in the foreground vs in the background? AFAIK on Android, no such distinction is made. Many apps
by ArchD 9y ago
Is there a way to distinguish permission to use the microphone in the foreground vs in the background? AFAIK on Android, no such distinction is made. Many apps have legitimate reasons for using the microphone while in the foreground, but very few in the background.
If there were a simple way to allow foreground use but deny background use of the microphone, a lot of offending apps would be neutered, but I'm not holding my breath for Google to change this, just like I'm not holding my breath for them to allow apps to be silently denied permission by being supplied with fake data (e.g. empty image for camera) so that they cannot refuse to run if denied permission.
- mikeash 9y agoApple doesn't make this distinction either. However, they show a BRIGHT RED BAR at the top of the screen any time an app is using the microphone in the background, so it never happens without your knowledge. Seems like Google should at least do that, and letting people block access in the background would be great too.