You checked your permissions. You may have missed half of them.

Not a battery problem, just forgotten permissions piling up.

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Since Android 13, sideloaded apps have had a harder time getting accessibility permissions. Malicious apps often use them to try to breach the victim’s security and privacy, so Google has focused on ...

Apps and websites are always wanting more, aren’t they? More data, more privileges, more control. As a result, you’ll often get a flurry of permissions or cookie pop-ups whenever you open up an app or ...

Google is bringing back the “Permissions” list on the Play Store just days after removing it. The company had rolled out the new Data Safety section as a replacement of sorts, but Android users didn’t ...