Has a notification appeared on your mobile saying that the permissions of the applications that you do not use will be removed? Don’t worry, this is a new measure that Google has begun to apply to all mobile devices that have Android inside them.

To improve the privacy of all users, as well as protect their security , Google took a somewhat extreme measure. From now on, those applications that are not used at least 1 time during a period of 3 months, will have all the permissions granted by the user when installing them will be revoked .

Why does Google want to remove permissions from Apps you don’t use?

As we mentioned in the paragraph above, Google is trying to improve the privacy and security of all users who download applications from the Google Play Store.

Without going any further, this measure would seem to be related to the enormous number of malicious applications that Google has had to remove from its app store in recent years.

There are times when users leave these malicious apps installed on their mobile devices , why? Because they simply forget that they are there.

To alleviate this situation, Google will remove all the permissions that these apps have requested . Of course, when the user opens that application before the three months are up, the Play Protect system will detect that it has been used and will not eliminate those accesses.

How to prevent Google Play Protect from removing the permissions of the apps you have installed?

It should be added that this new security system has some bugs. One of them is that it does not detect those applications that are used in the background , how? Like keyboard apps.

These types of apps are used constantly, but they are not opened through the icon that is installed in the mobile menu. To do this, it is necessary to follow these steps so that Google does not remove the permissions :

• Enter the Play Store .
• Click on your account (top right of the screen).
• Go into “Play Protect”.

• Click on “View apps”.
• Go to the category “Auto delete activated” and then click on the app that you do not want Google to delete the permissions .
• Finally, click on the green button next to “Remove permissions if the app is not used”.

Without anything more to add in this regard, we recommend that you disable this function of those apps that you do not use, but that you must have installed on your phone for some reason.

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