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The microphone permission is used for you to be able to record a voice message to send to someone. I don't know why it would suddenly ask but I have pressed th
by quelltext 7y ago
The microphone permission is used for you to be able to record a voice message to send to someone.
I don't know why it would suddenly ask but I have pressed that voice message / microphone button by accident in the past. Or maybe it's just something the app requests globally on newer versions.
- nolok 7y agoI was not asking why the microphone permission is needed, but why it would be used with the app in the background, not being used. > I have pressed that voice message / microphone button by accident in the past App in the background. It's not due to a keypress or to do any user-initiated action. Googling it, seems it's not a one off and that the app does indeed access the microphone from the background from time to time to do god knows what