If you haven’t thought recently about which Android apps have access to your device’s location, camera, microphone, or other features, now is a good time to do a privacy audit and ensure these permissions are up to date. There’s another permission type that allows apps access to system-wide resources, so while you’re at it, you should check these too.
Android’s various types of app permissions
Android devices have a dedicated privacy dashboard through which you can choose how apps access private data, like your camera, microphone, call logs, location, files, calendar, and contact list (to name a few). If you go to Settings > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Permission manager, you can see every app that has these permissions and change them if needed. For apps with location, camera, and microphone permissions, you can choose whether to allow access all the time, only when using the app, or not
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