Your old Android phone is getting better about keeping you safe from barely-used apps

'Those permissions granted to you? Yeah, we're gonna need them back...'

Google is alerting app developers to some big coding changes ahead of the planned expansion of Android's permission auto-reset policy. This means more users will have permissions they've granted to apps automatically revoked starting in December. Here's what you need to know as a consumer.

The permission auto-resetting policy came with the launch of Android 11 and applies to every single device running that version or later. The policy goes that if a user grants certain permissions for an app that targets Android 11 (API level 30) or later but then does not use the app for a few months, those permissions will be automatically revoked.

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Your old Android phone is getting better about keeping you safe from barely-used apps was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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