I've noticed lately that permissions on the Google Play Store vs installed on your phone are different.
For example: on Google Play Store calendar apps would have permissions of;
Uses calendar information and Uses contact information
or
Device and app history, use calendar information, use contact information, use one or more of call log, use one or more of files on the device, allow app to view info about Wi-Fi networking, allow the app to determine phone number and ID
but after installing it on phone it would have permissions of:
Read phone status and ID, Read call log, Read your contacts, Add or Modify calendar events and send e-mail to guests without owner's knowledge, Read calendar events and confidential information, Modify or delete the contents of your SD card
does anyone know why this happens ? My stock calendar has the same permissions.
Is it a Google adding these permissions? Called Google and they said that the developer needs to update their permissions list. Not happy with some of these permission. Does anyone have a calendar app that does not have these additonal permissions ?
pepo2k said:
I've noticed lately that permissions on the Google Play Store vs installed on your phone are different.
For example: on Google Play Store calendar apps would have permissions of;
Uses calendar information and Uses contact information
or
Device and app history, use calendar information, use contact information, use one or more of call log, use one or more of files on the device, allow app to view info about Wi-Fi networking, allow the app to determine phone number and ID
but after installing it on phone it would have permissions of:
Read phone status and ID, Read call log, Read your contacts, Add or Modify calendar events and send e-mail to guests without owner's knowledge, Read calendar events and confidential information, Modify or delete the contents of your SD card
does anyone know why this happens ? My stock calendar has the same permissions.
Is it a Google adding these permissions? Called Google and they said that the developer needs to update their permissions list. Not happy with some of these permission. Does anyone have a calendar app that does not have these additonal permissions ?
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Well first of all when installing anything from the play store the permissions are simplified so it wont show all of them vs when you install it on your phone it would have more. Also there are many calenders avaible and each has diffrent permissions so you would have to look and see what one would be good for you.
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Hope this helps
A_Bunny
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pepo2k said:
I've noticed lately that permissions on the Google Play Store vs installed on your phone are different.
For example: on Google Play Store calendar apps would have permissions of;
Uses calendar information and Uses contact information
or
Device and app history, use calendar information, use contact information, use one or more of call log, use one or more of files on the device, allow app to view info about Wi-Fi networking, allow the app to determine phone number and ID
but after installing it on phone it would have permissions of:
Read phone status and ID, Read call log, Read your contacts, Add or Modify calendar events and send e-mail to guests without owner's knowledge, Read calendar events and confidential information, Modify or delete the contents of your SD card
does anyone know why this happens ? My stock calendar has the same permissions.
Is it a Google adding these permissions? Called Google and they said that the developer needs to update their permissions list. Not happy with some of these permission. Does anyone have a calendar app that does not have these additonal permissions ?
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Google has simplified permissions so only the ones that may be violating your privacy are shown. If you scroll down on the bottom of google play you will see something like Show permissions or similar. Click that and I think it will show you all permissions.
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Hello.
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Unfortunetaly, I can't
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