In the Android operating system, applications cannot do everything they want. They have a few restriction imposed by the system itself to improve security and other user set limits to improve your privacy.
Then we will review the different restrictions that Android offers us limit what they can make applications with our data or resources of the device, and we will see why it is interesting to configure them.
What can we restrict in Android apps
Android app restrictions are divided into different categories or sections in system settings, where we can restrict the permissions apps can access, limit your notifications, battery usage, background data or screen usage.
It is interesting to review all these types of restrictions to ensure that apps only have access to the permissions they want to improve our privacy and that they use the device resources we need, so as not to waste battery or data, or for our health, limit the time they can be open an application. The restrictions that we can establish in each of our mobile applications are:
permissions
The bone permissions This is one of the most well-known restrictions, because when we install an application, it asks us if it can access personal data such as our photos and videos, our contacts, our location or sensitive components such as the camera or the microphone. The authorization manager usually found inside Settings > Privacy.
In the permissions we find their own restrictions, such as you can only access these permissions only when using the appor decide if we want applications to access our precise location or to a approximate location it only indicates what area we are in, not our exact location.
special access
The bone special access is another collection of more specific permissions that is also worth looking at. In Settings > Apps > Apps with special access we can examine what applications they have access to all fileswhich apps can change system settings, appear above other apps, install unknown apps or access device notifications, among other special accesses.
notifications
In Settings > Notifications oh Sounds and Notifications we can adjust or restrict app notifications. There we can disable all notifications from an application or through its notification channels limit which notifications we want to receive and which ones we do not want.
Bottom Battery
In the settings of the drums of our device, we can limit the battery usage by the applications. There we can restrict this an application cannot use the battery when it is in the background. This is how we ensure that some apps cannot waste battery in the background, which will leave them practically closed, so they will not work in the background and we will receive their notifications with a delay.
Background data
We can do the same with background data. In the mobile data settings we can choose for each application if we want it to be able use mobile data in the background. In this way, if we have applications that we use very little and only when they are in the foreground, we can save data by disabling its background data.
Timers
Finally, thanks to the Digital Wellbeing settings that come standard on most devices, you can also limit the display time of an application on the screen through their timers. This way you’ll make sure you can only use a specific app for a set amount of time.** This option is perfect if you find you’re spending hours watching videos on social media without realizing it** .
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