PERMISSION control app or How to prevent/control apps from accessing specific permissions?

[joshtrader]

Hi,

Coming from an iPhone, i was amazed at this jailbroken app called PMP (Protect My Privacy). Basically what this app does it have control over which app and what so-called permission each app can access (Ex. Allow or Disable app from accessing Contacts, Location and such). This is extremely helpful to prevent app from sniffing on my private info without user knowing. And with their crowd-sourced recommendation, people can share their settings on specific app and recommend you if you should enable or disable a setting, which can be very handy for user to help users losing private info.

I was wondering if there are any app out there or similar for Android that allow user to do the same function, Allowing or Disable apps from accessing certain PERMISSIONS when installing an app.

Hopefully Google incorporate this into their Playstore because so many apps requires such ridiculous permissions like reading your phone data call logs etc.

 

[Rizy7]

I believe there is something called pdroid patches which does similar from my understanding.

 

[Ribs85]

This is what you're after:
https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...tails?id=com.lbe.security.lite&token=sgOAbs63

Be careful though. Apps will be written to use those permissions and are unlikely to test if something has gone wrong when accessing them. If you get odd results when blocking things, don't blame the apps.

Alternatively, just don't install apps that have permissions you don't want to give. An update for an app I was using needed contacts permission all of a sudden. So I uninstalled and let my thoughts be known in my review.

There is nearly always an alternative out there...

 

[Unicorn Rancher]

Alternatively, just don't install apps that have permissions you don't want to give. An update for an app I was using needed contacts permission all of a sudden. So I uninstalled and let my thoughts be known in my review.

Another option for permission creep is don't upgrade. If the installed version does what you need, and doesn't require sketchy permissions...well, if it aint broke, don't fix it.

 

[Ribs85]

Not always an option if the app's backend services have a minimum required version of the app to work.

But you make a good point. Latest isn't always greatest. Sygic is a great example of this, where *every other release* is hopelessly broken. It's the one app where I have auto updates turned off.