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How do permissions work on Android? I can allow permission to select photos or all photos on Apple. Location while using the app, all the time and never. I am
by wand3r 3y ago
How do permissions work on Android? I can allow permission to select photos or all photos on Apple. Location while using the app, all the time and never.
I am genuinely asking this question. I can imagine FB would love access to all my comtacts, photos, location etc. Idk how it works on Android and if this occurs?
- bjtitus 3y agoThese are API level security features. Apple is conflating these two issues for their benefit. iOS is an incredibly secure platform mostly due to OS level security and carefully considered privacy in iOS libraries. Much of the benefit of the App Store is reducing spam and some data tracking, in addition to developer level features for IAP, subscriptions, and marketing. I do appreciate much of what the App Store offers but has been exceedingly slow to update the review system, which has plagued developers for over a decade with inconsistencies and poor communication. I'm hopeful the increased competition will encourage some improvements on that front.
- nolok 3y agoUnless they really break it on purpose, you would have the same permission choice when installing from third party sources. On android, the permission needed in the store doesn't mean I can't revoke any of them after the fact, or revoke one and not the other, and if an app install from outside sources they still need the permission request to be granted.
- kyriakos 3y agoAlso on android permissions are not requested at install time but when actually needed. Not sure if ios does the same. So regardless where an app is installed from (or sideloaded etc) the moment it will require access to photos an OS popup shows up asking for permission for this time only or always.