Many smartphone users have quite a few apps installed, perhaps without getting a complete overview of them all. You may have installed apps that looked interesting or useful there and then, but haven’t been used since. If the apps are taking up limited space, the motivation to clean up the big apps is often not enough, and maybe the apps will come in handy at some point.
Many applications, in connection with the first use, have requested permission to use certain types of functions, such as accessing the location, camera, microphone, and documents in the file system. In most versions of Android, apps keep these permissions until the user withdraws them or deletes the app. It has happened in the past that legitimate applications have been given new and unwanted functionality, which are running in the background without the user being aware of it.
Then it may be good that the application does not have worldwide access.
Reset permissions
In Android 11, a new feature was introduced that automatically resets the permissions of most apps that have not been used in three months. When you reopen apps affected by this, you must ask the user for new permission to use the requested resources.
At the end of last week It’s becoming clear that Google will provide the same functionality for many devices that can’t be upgraded to Android 11 – in fact anyone with Android 6 or later has Google Play Services (Google Play Services) installed. According to Google, there are billions of devices.
Released with Google Play Services
Google Play Services It is a somewhat unknown part of Android to many. Perhaps none of the Google “apps” in the Google Play Store get more funny user reviews than just Google Play Services, which indicates that many don’t quite know what this really is.
Google Play Services is part of Android that is installed on Google-certified Android devices. It is a framework that offers a variety of services and programming interfaces on top of Android, and is updated through Google Play in the same way as apps. And sometimes updates bring completely new functionality to both new and old versions of the operating system.
The function of auto-reset permissions will be rolled out on devices running Android 6 to Android 10 from December of this year. It is expected to be launched during the first quarter of 2022.
On devices with the update installed, users can go to the app settings and turn off the automatic reset feature for each app, if necessary.
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