Re: Pink circle on Home screen

Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:

That's my question (to VanguardLH). As I said, the Permission Manager
on my phone doesn't show such a permission. (At least, I can't find
one.)

My Android is too old (v8.0.0) to have the draw-over aka overlay aka
draw over other apps permission.  I think it should up in Android 10+.

While I gave the generic nav path to look at the permissions for each
app, I didn't think about some permission manager showing which apps
have which permissions. 

Since the OP has a Samsung phone, I found the following article:

https://www.samsung.com/us/support/troubleshooting/TSG01001313/

along with a more general article at:

https://accessibleandroid.com/what-is-display-over-other-apps-permission-on-android-and-when-do-you-need-it/

Well, every phone maker gets to customize Android how they want, and
Samsung used their own nav path to the draw-over permission.  I also
read the the draw-over permission may not be shown until you go into
Developer Options (after you enable it) to enable the permission to then
decide which apps can use it.

https://developer.android.com/training/permissions/requesting-special

That discusses the special permissions, and perhaps why Samsung put the
draw-over permission under Special Permissions.  In that article, it's
call the "Display over other apps" permission.