Source: Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central
How to access and use the Android 12 Privacy Dashboard
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Source: Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central
As we often see with Android phones, there will be different naming conventions and slightly different methods to get to the same information based on your phone brand. Our first example is the Samsung Galaxy S21 with its ONE UI Android 12 beta software.
To find what you’re looking for, use the exact instructions, but instead of looking for the words Privacy Dashboard, you’ll be on the lookout for Permission Usage History. You’ll also not see the colorful pie chart, but everything you need to know about what the apps on your phone have been doing is there all the same.
Why this is useful
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The Privacy Dashboard is a single place where you can see how often applications did things you might not want “just any old app” to be able to do. Certain permissions, like location or microphone access — are critical because they can be used in real-time to spy on where you are or what you’re doing.
With the Privacy Dashboard, you can see that applications accessed your location (for example). You can see how many apps accessed your area. And with a single tap, you can see a list of exactly which apps accessed your location and when they did it. One more tap teleports you right to the place where you can revoke that permission for that app, so it never happens again.
Android hasn’t had a tool like this before. Apple has long shown you a list of permissions and applications, but even iOS doesn’t have a single spot that’s this easy to use whenever you want to do a self-audit to check what your phone’s apps are up to on the back end.
The Privacy Dashboard isn’t perfect, but it’s already an awesome tool that you’ll want to take a look at as soon as your phone gets Android 12.
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