Why is Facebook messenger detecting a screen overlay ? (marshmallow)

[Foofoo]

I tried to send a pic in messenger, says I need to grant it permission to access my gallery. I go ahead to do so, but says there's an overlay detected. I searched on how to turn them off, and come to find they were never on in the first place. Uninstalled messenger, reinstalled it. Now it has zero permissions, and can't do anything because I can't switch anything without it saying it detects overlays. They're not on.. So wtf.

Don't know how to upload screen shots here though :-(

 

[Foobaca]

http :// imgur.com/a/8A4F6

spaced out my link (I'm the author) there's my screenshots

 

[spathers]

I'm having the same issue with Chrome. I can't change any permissions because it says it has detected a screen overlay. When I look in the screen overlay settings, there is nothing there....

 

[dpham00]

You probably have some app that is conflicting. Try to uninstall some apps that you might think conflicts. If you don't know, do s factory data reset and don't install any apps except Facebook and Facebook messenger,then try it

Sent from my Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 5

 

[Foobaca]

Did a hard reset, with only the two fb apps, with no success. Went back to Lollipop for the time being. Such a shame because everything was running smooth on Marshmallow. I'll wait for the updates before I pull the trigger. Much thanks dudes

 

[jrcurl]

It's another app interfering with your ability to turn on/off permissions. To fix go to settings--> apps--> advanced settings (gear icon top right)--> draw over other apps--> from here you should see a list of apps with a yes/no option. Go through the list switching "yes" to "no", while testing Facebook messenger. (Be sure to turn the " no" back to "yes" on apps that had no affect on Facebook) Eventually you'll find the app causing the problem. It may interfere with the app you turned to " no" unfortunately. Hopefully they fix this bug quickly.

 

[CrazineX]

If you have an app that dims the screen brightness then that's probably it. You're welcome

 

[Ryan Baumann1]

Screen dimming app was it. Lux in my case. Thank you!

 

[csherman1]

Thank you! I too had Lux interfering. I tweaked the Apps settings and I'm all good!

 

[pirateghostabc]

Yep, Lux. It got so annoying (screen overlay issues) I disabled it, but I do miss it. I emailed developer twice and he never responded. Not sure if he plans on fixing it for Marshmallow or not.

 

[ATAVU5]

Logged in just to say thanks! I wouldn't have guessed Lux was blocking me from making changed to app permissions.

 

[klev0036]

The light was my issue as well

 

[Hoopsicle]

Followed advice given above re. advance settings...found it to be a screen/light dimming app (twilight in my case) to be the problem

 

[ashish6444]

For me it was due to a Blue light filter application which is causing problem for even whatsapp. Only after disabling that it worked.

 

[dazkatmaka]

I found that it was lux brightness that was causing my issues.

 

[Benjamin Ryan]

Twilight for me as well

HTC 10
Android version 6.0.1
Software version 1.30.401.1

 

[Remson John Pellisserry]

The screen overlay is detected when you are using a non system 3rd party app that modifies your display eg.:Twilight,Nightscreen etc. Just turn off the screen overlay of that app and you are ready to go

 

[Mimichang]

Well I don't have any Lux or whatever those apps. Help???

 

[T Ford]

The only way i could fix the screen overlay message was open the aps screen, select settings, click on apps, upper right corner select configure apps, select app permissions. You'll probably notice that somehow all your app permissions were unchecked, this is the ONLY way to give them permission and it stick for the HTC 10. You shouldn't get a message about needing to allow access or anything about screen overlays now.

 

[Potsy21]

Mine was a game called 'shadow quiz game' just uninstalled it and all is good now. Try to think back about recent apps installed and delete if not necessarily required. Also Smart Manager in settings detected an issue with the app game so maybe look there first. Running Marshmallow on S7 by the way.