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Originally Posted by afv011
That feature is from the OS, you're using a 3rd party app to bring it to the front.
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You need a third party app to make use of the hidden feature. So much for transparency!
It also seems fundamentally flawed - according to
this article some permissions don't appear in the list, and hence can't be edited, until they've been used by the app at least once, so you don't have the opportunity to prevent that first use. If it's an untrustworthy app, then turning off the permission after that first use may be too late.
As the linked review says:
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You have to go and hunt down all the permissions and make the app use them before you are allowed to disable them. That's a lot of work. Is this list complete? Will it ever be complete? There's really no way of knowing.
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In any case, although I prefer the iOS approach overall, I agree that the initial transparency on installation that Android has would be a welcome addition to iOS. Similarly, it seems clear to me that transparent iOS-style permission granularity and prompting before first use would be a useful addition to Android.
/JB