Google will allow automatic resetting of permissions for long-unused apps on versions of Android as old as Android 6.
Version after version, Android keeps getting better. And to improve an operating system, mobile or not, there are many aspects to consider. One of them, and very important in recent times, concerns the respect of privacy and the protection of personal data. Android 11 automatically resets permissions granted to apps that have not been used for a long time. A feature that arrives on the oldest versions of the OS from Google.
Google will allow an automatic reset of permissions for old applications
Android 11 introduced a number of new privacy-related features. Among these is the ability to automatically reset permissions granted to applications that you have not used for a long time. Indeed, it often happens that we download an application, that we grant it certain permissions, that we use it a few times and that’s it. We then leave the application installed there on our phone.
on versions of Android as old as Android 6
With this feature, after a certain period of non-use of the application, Google will erase these permissions automatically and you will have to give them back if you happen to use the application in question again. That being said, as useful as it is, this feature has so far only been available on Android 11 and later. Google will change that.
From December 2021, Google announced that it will make this feature available to older Android versions. Since Android 6. Not bad, right? Once the update is deployed and installed on your device, it will be enabled by default. So you won’t have to do anything. You will have to deactivate it manually if you do not wish to use it.
In any case, this is good news for users who are concerned about respecting their privacy. If we suspect that there should not be many devices running Android 6 still in circulation, this should be very appreciable for all devices running Android 8, 9, or 10 that were not entitled to Android 11.
