Not all applications that can be installed on an Android mobile have good intentions regarding their users’ data. In Europe, the alarm has already been raised several times by applications, which only sought to collect information and abuse the permissions granted to them.
The intentions of an application must be suspected if it requests authorizations that it does not a priori need to fulfill its main mission. This doesn’t mean an app is necessarily malware, but it’s best to remove its permissions and examine its trustworthiness.
For certain generations, Android has had its own permissions manager, thanks to which it is possible to grant or remove these to the different applications that request them, and it is an ideal tool if you need to continue using an application which requires too many authorizations.
Remove permissions on Android
The first thing to keep in mind is that if you suspect that an application installed on your mobile may be malware, It is best to uninstall it as quickly as possible. However, there are other applications that, although they do not contain any viruses, go a little overboard with permission requests, or we simply do not want to give them access to the camera or other sensitive elements like the microphone, and it is possible to delete them. them after granting it. .
To do this, you just have to go to Settings, and once there go to the applications section, where there will be a list of all those installed on the device. In the file of each of them you will find the permissions section.
These can be present in three different ways. They can be granted, marked with the possibility of requesting if necessary, or blocked.
Application permissions
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It is normal for an application like Google Maps to need access to the user’s location, however, there are other applications that ask for them even if they do not need them, which makes them suspicious. If it is clear that the application does not need to access a specific element, is it possible to block authorization, but if you have questions, the wisest option might be to check the option to always ask. In this sense, the decision depends on each person and the reliability of each application.
Keep in mind that it is also possible to remove privileges from an application even if it is using them. For example, with Instagram it is possible to remove camera and microphone permissions, but it will ask you every time you want to upload a story or send an audio message. In some customization layers it is possible to find an independent section to manage all application permissions, and it can be the most comfortable way to carry out this management, since we first access the authorization type, then all the applications that requested it.
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