Screen Overlay Detected - To Change This Permission......6P is messed up

[GSDer]

But I lost all my chats.

Do you know that you can backup your chats in WhatsApp? Go to Settings -> Chats -> Chat backup.

 

[Irene Talking Dove Burke]

I'm having this issue too but I've already tried turning everything off even system apps but it still tells me screen overlay detected. Nothing I've tried will fix it and a lot of my apps are giving me this error now. I don't have Twilight or anything like that, at least not that I know of. My phone did a system update yesterday and now I'm having this problem. Help!! Please.

I'm having the same issue with my Samsung Galaxy Note 5 it's very very irritating and I can't figure out how to get it to stop. It's the same infinite loop.

 

[Claire Reynolds1]

Hi. i just switched off my side key panel and my phone is back to normal. I have a note 4. Hope this helps.

 

[Tmoreiko]

Do not do a factory reset! It will fix the problem for just a couple days then it'll go right back.

I have the same issue. Whether it's the Facebook or Twitter mobile app or through the browser. A friend said I'll have to do a factory reset. But i don't think i should have to. But how do you turn off the screen overlay? I don't see anything saying turn screen overlay on or off. Running stock Android 6 on T-Mobile.

 

[Hassan Megenow]

thanks for the information, I had the same problem and this fixed it right up so thank you

 

[ghost618]

for me the app causing it was Assistant-Your Voice Aide

 

[TLC2U]

I kept getting the same message, I turned off the bluelight filter app and was able to make the changes I wanted to make.

This worked perfectly! Thank you!

 

[Sathesh Kumar Manickaraj]

Has anyone got this error message? I'm trying to share a photo via facebook and whether from my gallery app or from facebook. It asks if I want to give FB access to my storage. I say yes. It says "Screen overlay detected- To change this permission setting you first have to turn off the screen overlay from Settings > Apps"

I do that but nothing works. Whether it says NO by FB's Screen Overlay allowed, or YES - it still just directs me in this endless loops. Have tried reboots and nothing. Anybody else experiencing anything similar?

just deactivate the "one hand operation" if it's activated already.

 

[Mustang3199]

Has anyone got this error message? I'm trying to share a photo via facebook and whether from my gallery app or from facebook. It asks if I want to give FB access to my storage. I say yes. It says "Screen overlay detected- To change this permission setting you first have to turn off the screen overlay from Settings > Apps"

I do that but nothing works. Whether it says NO by FB's Screen Overlay allowed, or YES - it still just directs me in this endless loops. Have tried reboots and nothing. Anybody else experiencing anything similar?

I am currently having the same. Have you found a solution?

 

[GSDer]

I am currently having the same. Have you found a solution?

Did you read through the previous 145 posts?
Or all of the posts in https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?ur...&share_tid=629995&share_fid=4950&share_type=t

 

[ZBlockston]

Has anyone got this error message? I'm trying to share a photo via facebook and whether from my gallery app or from facebook. It asks if I want to give FB access to my storage. I say yes. It says "Screen overlay detected- To change this permission setting you first have to turn off the screen overlay from Settings > Apps"

I do that but nothing works. Whether it says NO by FB's Screen Overlay allowed, or YES - it still just directs me in this endless loops. Have tried reboots and nothing. Anybody else experiencing anything similar?

I had my 6p showing the battery percentage number in the top right hand corner and it kept taking me on the loop you mentioned. I turned that off and screen overlay is no more.

 

[lhweb]

Here is the fix this I used. I didn't have any of the know apps that were causing the problem.

Settings>Applications>Application Manager>More>
Apps that show on top>More>
Show system apps> turn ALL of them off.

 

[t1023]

Has anyone got this error message? I'm trying to share a photo via facebook and whether from my gallery app or from facebook. It asks if I want to give FB access to my storage. I say yes. It says "Screen overlay detected- To change this permission setting you first have to turn off the screen overlay from Settings > Apps"

I do that but nothing works. Whether it says NO by FB's Screen Overlay allowed, or YES - it still just directs me in this endless loops. Have tried reboots and nothing. Anybody else experiencing anything similar?

i am also expeeiencing this problem and i am already pissed off

 

[Pixelforce94]

Has anyone got this error message? I'm trying to share a photo via facebook and whether from my gallery app or from facebook. It asks if I want to give FB access to my storage. I say yes. It says "Screen overlay detected- To change this permission setting you first have to turn off the screen overlay from Settings > Apps"

I do that but nothing works. Whether it says NO by FB's Screen Overlay allowed, or YES - it still just directs me in this endless loops. Have tried reboots and nothing. Anybody else experiencing anything similar?

Simply just close your FB chat head I tried everything to and disabling all overlay worked but it's a pain so I tried closing FB chat and it worked you just can't have a over lay on screen while doing this

 

[NickyJules]

Hey Sesha6,

I posted above that I got rid of the screen overlay issue by deleting all Cheetah apps, including CM. That worked for a while. Now I am getting the screen overlay issue again, even though I haven't added any apps to the phone. Could this be a result of any updates on current apps? Do you have any suggestions of what to look for? Thanks, Nicky.

 

[GSDer]

Do you have any suggestions of what to look for?

Have you looked in Settings -> Apps -> Gear symbol -> Special access -> Draw over other apps (this is the navigation path in 7.0; not sure what it is if you're on 6.0.1)?

This should show a list of all apps that are allowed to overlay other apps. You can turn off any likely suspects until you find the one(s) causing your problem.

 

[jovitamlvr]

Just installed File Manager and no more "overlay detected" message. Thank you

thanks!!! Its working!

 

[J-Anderson]

I have a Galaxy Note 5 and I simply rebooted the phone. Problem solved at least for now. If I see it again, I will just reboot.

Thanks to this thread, I too simply rebooted my Note 5 and that solved the problem for now.

 

[alkio_bear]

Has anyone got this error message? I'm trying to share a photo via facebook and whether from my gallery app or from facebook. It asks if I want to give FB access to my storage. I say yes. It says "Screen overlay detected- To change this permission setting you first have to turn off the screen overlay from Settings > Apps"

I do that but nothing works. Whether it says NO by FB's Screen Overlay allowed, or YES - it still just directs me in this endless loops. Have tried reboots and nothing. Anybody else experiencing anything similar?

If you have "Always On Display" on, try taking it off and it'll work

 

[instinctblues03]

Was figuring this out for forever.. I got extremely frustrated to the point where I wanted to smash my Note 7. The issue was closing the Facebook Messenger Chat Heads. Every time I closed out of them, the apps were working.. Thank god for figuring this out.. Thanks for whoever said that!