Android’s most powerful app permission could soon come with a much scarier warning
Android 17 could make one of its most powerful app permissions harder to approve without a second thought. New warning text explains that trusted apps may view and interact with screen content, even while the phone is locked. Nerd’s Chalk uncovered the language in an APK teardown of Android 17 QPR2 Beta 1.
- ▪Android 17 could make one of its most powerful app permissions harder to approve without a second thought.
- ▪New warning text explains that trusted apps may view and interact with screen content, even while the phone is locked.
- ▪Nerd’s Chalk uncovered the language in an APK teardown of Android 17 QPR2 Beta 1.
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Android 17 could make one of its most powerful app permissions harder to approve without a second thought. New warning text explains that trusted apps may view and interact with screen content, even while the phone is locked. Nerd’s Chalk uncovered the language in an APK teardown of Android 17 QPR2 Beta 1. The feature isn’t active, but Google’s description now leaves considerably less to the imagination. What the warning now reveals The earlier summary referred broadly to screen automation based on the user’s activity. That phrasing didn’t convey how much control an approved app could receive.
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