> There where ways to have all of this long before either normal Android or iOS had it. Do you mean something like PDroid or XPrivacy? Yeah that was indeed pre

> There where ways to have all of this long before either normal Android or iOS had it. Do you mean something like PDroid or XPrivacy? Yeah that was indeed pretty awesome, however these already used underlying APIs that were the precursor to permission management. If I recall correctly the first inofficial permission manager was in AOSP Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). It was however not that useful compared to the alternatives and also hard to access if at all. As a sidenote: PDroid is still my gold standard. It was annoying to install, but it worked really well.