Where did my setting for not allowing apps from unknown sources go after Oreo update?

[coreopsis31]

S8 ATT. Does this mean that unknown apps such as spyware can be installed (with out having to turn that setting off )on the phone? -Granted someone got their hands on your phone-

apps such as spyware can be installed (with out having to turn that setting off )on the phone? -Granted someone got their hands on your phone-

 

[N4Newbie]

Settings -> Apps & Notifications -> Special app access (all the way at the bottom) -> Install unknown apps (again, all the way at the bottom).

 

[mary beth hale]

In the Oreo Beta it was in settings>apps>3 dots upper right>special access. I have a different phone now that doesn't run Oreo yet, so not sure if this is the way it works in the official Oreo update.

 

[Centerman66]

Why would they move this?!

 

[Rukbat]

Because once you turn it on, apps can install other apps.

In Oreo (and probably in the future), you'll be asked, for each app not from Play, whether you want to allow it to install, so if it's not an app you're installing, you can say No.

 

[coreopsis31]

I've had someone install a camouflaged spyware app on my phone before and the only way I knew that someone had was that my settings for unknown sources was allowed and I never had ever allowed that for so that was the only way I knew. Now if somebody was to do that I would never know

This seems like a corporate decision definitely not listening to the customers.... Again

 

[Centerman66]

Because once you turn it on, apps can install other apps.

In Oreo (and probably in the future), you'll be asked, for each app not from Play, whether you want to allow it to install, so if it's not an app you're installing, you can say No.

This explains the existence of the option but not its new placement. Thanks for trying.

 

[neo158]

The other thing to remember is that this is no longer a global setting but set per app.