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Would be nice to have something like Android has nowadays where software that hasn't been used in X days is progressively permission restricted and tallied in a

Would be nice to have something like Android has nowadays where software that hasn't been used in X days is progressively permission restricted and tallied in a list for easy removal.

doublepg23 3y ago
Auto-revoking permissions has been a feature of Android since Android 11 in 2020 https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/09/28/android-11-can-automatically-revoke-permissions-from-unused-apps/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/09/28/android-11-can-auto...
- sambazi 3y ago
  and serves as a major source of confusion and support tickets
- taskforcegemini 3y ago
  ..the hidden benefits of being stuck with outdated firmware
hulitu 3y ago
And when you need to use it, it's gone. I have some bus schedule apps that i use when i travel to other cities so Android removing them will be an inconvenience.
- magicalhippo 3y ago
  It's not a huge inconvenience in my experience, as the apps should be written to ask for permission if they don't have it. Thus it should be a single additional click in that case. I much prefer that over apps having permissions "forever". Only thing I dislike is that the Android permissions are quite coarse grained and intertwined. I still get asked for some seemingly irrelevant permission but when I check then it turns out it's just Androids permissions being weird.
  - taskforcegemini 3y ago
    thus one is getting used to granting random access permissions
- prettyStandard 3y ago
  I thought this was a Samsung feature. On Samsung it doesn't uninstall it, it just removes permissions and then finally disables it. What OS are you using that it uninstalls things?
  - queuebert 3y ago
    I don't know about the immediate parent, but on my Pixel it doesn't uninstall anything automatically. It suggests apps to uninstall if you go to Files > Clean, but doesn't nag you about it.
somat 3y ago
I sometimes get a strange feeling that apps should have been more like web pages. Nothing to install, it's there when you want to use it and gets evicted from the cache if you don't. I think the converse of this is. What would the web would have looked like if a commercial corporation developed it? An app store, it would be an app store.
- pjmlp 3y ago
  Android Instant Apps, however almost no one uses them, because not everyone has 5G all over the place.
- _a_a_a_ 3y ago
  > What would the web would have looked like if a commercial corporation developed it? Do you really not know already given the many precedents of this kind of thing/
crabbone 3y ago
Yeah... no. This kind of automatic intelligence based on very simple statistical methods is at best annoying and at most harmful. If I had to run such a system and had access to this functionality, my first response would be to disable and remove it.
- rkta 3y ago
  Yes, like the app to warn me in case of a disaster which gets the location permission removed and thus cannot warn me anymore.

Would be nice to have something like Android has nowadays where software that hasn't been used in X days is progressively permission restricted and tallied in a list for easy removal.

doublepg23 3y ago

Auto-revoking permissions has been a feature of Android since Android 11 in 2020 https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/09/28/android-11-can-automatically-revoke-permissions-from-unused-apps/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/09/28/android-11-can-auto...

sambazi 3y ago
and serves as a major source of confusion and support tickets
taskforcegemini 3y ago
..the hidden benefits of being stuck with outdated firmware

hulitu 3y ago

And when you need to use it, it's gone. I have some bus schedule apps that i use when i travel to other cities so Android removing them will be an inconvenience.

magicalhippo 3y ago
It's not a huge inconvenience in my experience, as the apps should be written to ask for permission if they don't have it. Thus it should be a single additional click in that case. I much prefer that over apps having permissions "forever". Only thing I dislike is that the Android permissions are quite coarse grained and intertwined. I still get asked for some seemingly irrelevant permission but when I check then it turns out it's just Androids permissions being weird.
- taskforcegemini 3y ago
  thus one is getting used to granting random access permissions
prettyStandard 3y ago
I thought this was a Samsung feature. On Samsung it doesn't uninstall it, it just removes permissions and then finally disables it. What OS are you using that it uninstalls things?
- queuebert 3y ago
  I don't know about the immediate parent, but on my Pixel it doesn't uninstall anything automatically. It suggests apps to uninstall if you go to Files > Clean, but doesn't nag you about it.

somat 3y ago

I sometimes get a strange feeling that apps should have been more like web pages. Nothing to install, it's there when you want to use it and gets evicted from the cache if you don't. I think the converse of this is. What would the web would have looked like if a commercial corporation developed it? An app store, it would be an app store.

pjmlp 3y ago
Android Instant Apps, however almost no one uses them, because not everyone has 5G all over the place.
_a_a_a_ 3y ago
> What would the web would have looked like if a commercial corporation developed it? Do you really not know already given the many precedents of this kind of thing/

crabbone 3y ago

Yeah... no. This kind of automatic intelligence based on very simple statistical methods is at best annoying and at most harmful. If I had to run such a system and had access to this functionality, my first response would be to disable and remove it.

rkta 3y ago
Yes, like the app to warn me in case of a disaster which gets the location permission removed and thus cannot warn me anymore.