In Android Marshmallow, Google totally revamped how you manage app permissions: It’s a change that’s apparent every time you download an app from Google Play. You’ll get a new, more detailed permissions notice—but it goes much deeper than that.
Don’t want Chrome to be able to see your location? Not a problem. With Android Marshmallow, You can pick and choose what sorts of information and which system resources any given app can access. Here’s how to find and use this new feature.
Open the Settings app, then tap Apps under the Device subheading. Next, tap the Gear icon in the upper-right corner, and then tap App permissions on the following screen. From here, you’ll get a list of all the sensors, information, and other features of your phone that apps can access. Tap on any of these to see which apps can get at that particular feature. For the sake of this tutorial, I’ll take a look and see which apps can access my phone’s camera and snap photos, so I’ll tap Camera.
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