Click the cog on the Start menu to open Settings, then pick Privacy to see what your installed apps are allowed to do on the OS. As before, you'll be warned if you're disabling a permission that an app significantly relies on.Īs Windows 10 has evolved over time, it's become more smartphone-like in the way it handles apps, and that includes the way it handles app permissions. Here you can browse by permission-from microphone access to call logs-and switch off any you're not comfortable with. If the permission is particularly important to the app, you might have to tap a confirmation box.Ī more comprehensive list of permissions can be found by tapping App permissions on the Apps & notifications screen. Tap on Permissions to see everything the app has access to: A messaging app, for instance, might have access to SMS. Then, tap on the app you want to look at (if you can't spot it, tap See all). Open up the Settings app and head to the Apps & notifications menu. Your version may not match exactly, but you should be able to find something similar on your handset.
Android comes in a variety of flavors depending on which manufacturer makes the phone, but here we'll list the required steps for the stock version of Android installed on the Google Pixel.
