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 remember being annoyed that the standard camera app required microphone permission and that caused me some hassle once. It obviously needs file permissions in order to save pictures. But, I don’t remember it requiring network permissions or anything else especially alarming.
It shouldn’t need microphone permission for taking still photos, or for shooting videos without sound. I joke that Charlie Chaplin was able to make silent movies 100 years ago, but the technology for doing that now seems to have been lost.
What other permissions does it want? What Android version? When I encountered this, it was on my old phone that ran Android 6 at the time (later Android 7).
Android doesn’t have network permission. Any app can access the internet (otherwise ads wouldn’t work).
Well, technically it does. But it’s granted automatically and user can’t even revoke it without using custom ROM.
Charlie Chaplin 😊 I listed all the permissions in another response. Android 16.