Re: Frozeo phone

On 20.04.25 22:08, Carlos E.R. wrote:

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

VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:
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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.

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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.
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https://chromeunboxed.com/google-can-now-auto-disable-permissons-from-risky-android-apps/
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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.

IMHO it is the only sensible way. How many of these "supercritical" apps does the average user have? I love the feature and how Android handles it. Easy to manage that at the app level.
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