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| Google introduces new privacy features for older phones |
Google has announced that it will introduce automatic deauthorization of Android 11 for all devices running Android 6 and above.
The company has introduced automatic revocation of Android 11 permissions to prevent unused apps from accessing sensitive user permissions.
Although this data protection feature is still only applicable to devices running Android 11 and above. But it will appear on older Android versions up to Android 6 soon.
This feature will be rolling out later this year to devices that have Google Play Services installed.
The company said that apps targeting Android 11 (API level 30) or higher are enabled by default.
For applications targeting API levels 23 to 29, the user must activate it manually in the settings.
The reset permissions feature automatically revokes sensitive permissions granted to apps that users haven't been able to access for months.
For example, if you allow an app to access your location, but for some reason the app hasn't opened for a long time, the functionality automatically cancels the app's location authorization and the app must request location authorization again. You open it.
The Automatic Permission Reset feature does not apply to the Device Administrator app. Likewise, licenses that are specified by company policy are not revoked.
Google automatically revokes permissions from billions of old phones
This feature is also compatible with the Sleep app on Android 12. If necessary, the app developer can also ask the user to disable the auto-reset permissions feature.
If your app targets API level 30 or higher and you want users to turn off automatic permission reset, consider using the new cross-platform API that is part of the Jetpack Core library.
This is very useful for applications that mostly run in the background, such as: b. The ones that come with smart watches.
The auto-cancellation feature that is implemented on older Android phones seems trivial. However, since software support has been discontinued long ago on many older phones, they are more likely to be exploited by malicious apps.
From December 2021, the auto-reset functionality will be gradually expanded to Android 6 via Google Play Services.
The company said that this feature will cover all eligible devices by the first quarter of 2022. The Auto Reset API was released today on all platforms in Jetpack Core 1.7.0 beta. However, it will be rolled out as a stable API in October 2021.