Apps need access to permissions such as your Location, Camera, Microphone etc. to provide the intended services. Your cab hailing app may require access to your location, your messaging apps may require access to microphone and camera. While permissions are required by an app to perform the intended task, some apps may misuse these permissions to steal your information or use them to monitor your actions.
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The average smart phone user has 80+ apps on their smart phone. It can be a cumbersome task to manage permissions manually and apps may change their permission requirements from time to time making it more difficult to manage your app permissions.
InfoSecyour Mobile security and Online privacy app uses a proprietary technique to classify apps into high/medium/low risk based on the combination of permissions requested. This way you can easily identify apps that need attention and also get notifications whenever an app has been granted a risky permission.
Use the App permissions risk review feature to manage app permissions in 3 simple steps. Select the app for which you want to review the permissions.
You may edit permissions by clicking on the switch button. This will open the App info screen which is an android feature, Tap on permissions in the App info screen.
Set permission to Allow only while app is in use wherever possible or deny permission if you don’t trust the app