Change app permissions on your Android phone

You tin allow some apps to use diverse features on your phone, such as your camera or contacts list. An app will send a notification to ask for permission to use features on your telephone, which you lot canAllow orDeny. You can also change permissions for a single app or past permission type in your phone'due south Settings.

Change app permissions

  1. On your phone, open the Settings app.
  2. Tap Apps.
  3. Tap the app you want to change. If you lot can't notice information technology, tap See all apps. And then, choose your app.
  4. Tap Permissions.
    • If you immune or denied any permissions for the app, y'all'll find them hither.
  5. To change a permission setting, tap it, then choose Allow or Don't allow.

For location, camera, and microphone permissions, y'all may be able to choose:

  • All the time (Location simply): The app tin can use the permission at any time, even when you lot're not using the app.
  • Allow only while using the app: The app tin can use the permission only when you're using that app.
  • Ask every fourth dimension: Every time you open up the app, it'll ask to use the permission. It can utilise the permission until you lot're done with the app.
  • Don't allow: The app cannot use the setting, fifty-fifty when you lot're using the app.

Change permissions based on their type

You lot can check which apps take the same permission setting. For example, you lot tin check which apps take permission to view your calendar.

  1. On your phone, open up the Settings app.
  2. Tap Privacy And thenPermission director.
  3. Tap a permission type.
    • If yous allowed or denied permission to any apps, y'all'll find them hither.
  4. To modify an app'southward permission, tap the app, then choose your permission settings.

Types of permissions

Beneath is a list of permissions and what they do when turned on for an app.

  • Body sensors: Get sensor info well-nigh your vital signs.
  • Calendar: Employ your default calendar.
  • Call logs: Access and change your phone call history.
  • Camera: Utilise your photographic camera to take pictures or videos.
  • Contacts: Access your contacts list.
  • Location: Gets your device's location. Acquire about location settings.
  • Microphone: Record sound.
  • Nearby Bluetooth devices: Apps tin can detect and connect to nearby devices. Learn how Nearby works.
  • Telephone: Brand and manage phone calls.
  • Physical activity: Become info about your activity like walking, biking, stride count, and more.
  • SMS: Admission incoming and transport outgoing text messages.
  • Storage: Get photos and other files on your telephone.
  • Files and media: Use photos, media, and other files on your phone.

Automatically remove permissions for unused apps

  1. On your phone, open the Settings app.
  2. Tap Apps.
  3. Tap the app you want to change.
    • If you can't find it, tap See all apps. And so, choose your app.
  4. Under "Unused apps," turn on Remove permissions and free upwardly space.

Disable camera or microphone access on your device

  1. On your phone, open the Settings app.
  2. Tap Privacy.
  3. Plough off Camera admission or Microphone access.

Related resources

  • Download apps to your Android device

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