Re: Frozeo phone

On 2025-04-20 21:45, VanguardLH wrote:

VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:
 

db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> wrote:
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What would do this?

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An app.  Look at what you've installed.  You might find a lot of them,
especially if you used them only once or twice over a long time, are no
longer needed, or there are non-adware apps to do the same thing.

 A while ago, Google introduced a "security" feature in their Play Store
app that will remove permissions from apps (auto-reset permissions) that
have not been used in a long time.  I had to go into the Play Store app
(your profile pic icon -> Play Protect -> App Privacy -> Auto-remove Off
and go to each app to disable auto-reset.  There is no global option to
disable it for all apps.  If you install a new app, yep, you have to
revisit Play Protect's privacy settings for the new app to remove
auto-reset.
 https://chromeunboxed.com/google-can-now-auto-disable-permissons-from-risky-android-apps/
 If you permit Google to automatically expire permissions on apps, and
you run the app later, you'll get the same set of prompts regarding
permissions as when you installed the app, or when you first used it.
But you'll have to remember which permissions you originally allowed,
and which you did not.  Play Protect tells which permissions it removed,
so you could re-add those permissions, and then disable auto-remove for
that app.  I would prefer a global option that completely disables
auto-remove, but Google has a different opinion.

Same here. It is a royal pain.
There are apps that I do not use in months, but are supposed to alert me if something happens. There goes Google and removes their permissions and temporary files, so they stop working and the alerts do not arrive. Very clever, google! :-/
Oh, periodically the phone alerts me that it has removed permissions from a bunch of applications. I have to review the list one by one, and make sure the switch to "hands off" is off. Sometimes, one app is on.
But some months back, they reverted all apps to "on"!
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Cheers, Carlos.