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From: =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?= <hugybear@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: Frozeo phone
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 22:27:11 +0200
Organization: Camembert Normand au Lait Cru
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On 20.04.25 22:08, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2025-04-20 21:45, VanguardLH wrote:
>> VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:
>>
>>> db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What would do this?
>>>
>>> An app.  Look at what you've installed.  You might find a lot of them,
>>> especially if you used them only once or twice over a long time, are no
>>> longer needed, or there are non-adware apps to do the same thing.
>>
>> A while ago, Google introduced a "security" feature in their Play Store
>> app that will remove permissions from apps (auto-reset permissions) that
>> have not been used in a long time.  I had to go into the Play Store app
>> (your profile pic icon -> Play Protect -> App Privacy -> Auto-remove Off
>> and go to each app to disable auto-reset.  There is no global option to
>> disable it for all apps.  If you install a new app, yep, you have to
>> revisit Play Protect's privacy settings for the new app to remove
>> auto-reset.
>>
>> https://chromeunboxed.com/google-can-now-auto-disable-permissons-from-risky-android-apps/
>>
>> If you permit Google to automatically expire permissions on apps, and
>> you run the app later, you'll get the same set of prompts regarding
>> permissions as when you installed the app, or when you first used it.
>> But you'll have to remember which permissions you originally allowed,
>> and which you did not.  Play Protect tells which permissions it removed,
>> so you could re-add those permissions, and then disable auto-remove for
>> that app.  I would prefer a global option that completely disables
>> auto-remove, but Google has a different opinion.
> 
> Same here. It is a royal pain.

IMHO it is the only sensible way. How many of these "supercritical" apps 
does the average user have? I love the feature and how Android handles 
it. Easy to manage that at the app level.


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