When you download a new app on your phone, it asks you for access to some parts of the mobile phone in order to function properly. You grant permissions to many apps, and when it's no longer useful to you, you may want to remove those permissions for more control of your phone. You can remove application permissions to make your smartphone more secure.
You may many times accept application permissions without looking at them, just because it is a popular application and if everyone has it, what could happen. Applications ask you for all kinds of permissions, depending on what it is. They can be asked to connect to the internet, access your contacts, access your Twitter or Facebook account ... Managing permissions is essential pso that our smartphone is safer and safe.
If you have applications installed for a long time and you do not remember what permissions have you given but are you concerned about privacy, you can remove the permissions of the applications you want in a simple way and remove, at the same time, the worry.
Since Google released Android Marshmallow permission management is much easier and you can control practically everything. To do so, just go to the phone settings and find the Applications section.
Within the applications section you will find all the apps that are on your phone, to find the permissions of one in particular you will have to go to the app in question and access its options. In the options of each application we can access the permissions and see what we have access to. We can revoke the accesses that we want and deny all the permissions at the same time or only to some in particular.
A very useful way to remove permissions from applications that have been on your mobile phone for a long time and you do not remember what they were asking you for, but for security reasons, You prefer to have these permissions under control and know what part of your information they have access to.
If you have a version older than Android Marshmallow It will depend on the phone model you have or the brand. Some custom layers such as Xiaomi allow you to manage permissions very easily but others do not, so if you want to save yourself the whole process, the most comfortable thing will be to uninstall the app you have doubts about and reinstall it on your mobile. . During the installation process You will see what permissions it asks for and you can decide whether to install it or not.
