Android has prescribed apps to request individual permissions at runtime since Android 6.0 (released in 2015): https://developer.android.com/training/permissio

Android has prescribed apps to request individual permissions at runtime since Android 6.0 (released in 2015): https://developer.android.com/training/permissions/requesting https://developer.android.com/training/permissions/requestin... iOS switched to the runtime permission request in iOS 6 (released in 2012), so they switched earlier than Android, but both platforms have had runtime permissions requests for years.