Wondering what people are thinking about this and why the internet is so quiet about it. I am not happy. Today it decided I couldn’t use the camera without giving it extensive permissions and agreeing to it. Not cool.
Wondering what people are thinking about this and why the internet is so quiet about it. I am not happy. Today it decided I couldn’t use the camera without giving it extensive permissions and agreeing to it. Not cool.
I looked at the permissions the camera app has on my phone. While yes it has a few they don’t seem unreasonable to me.
Camera, microphone, photos and video are the absolute bare minimum to be able to capture pictures and video and be able to save them locally.
Notifications while not critical makes sense so it can show a recording notification.
Location once again seems common sense to me because lots of people want their photos geotagged. I believe this is also why nearby devices is required.
I was able to disable location and nearby devices and the app still works, which I think is acceptable.
I’d be curious to see what permissions your camera app has/had/requested to see if it was after more suspicious access.
I believe the nearby devices permission could also be for stuff like remote microphones and those remotes that take the picture when you press a button