Comment by watwut
18 hours ago
Not more then for any other app. Android design is such that it intentionally trains users to accept everything.
18 hours ago
Not more then for any other app. Android design is such that it intentionally trains users to accept everything.
Yes, more than anything else: https://github.com/cvzi/ScreenshotTile?tab=readme-ov-file#te... Depending on method and version of Android, you have to jump through ridiculous steps to allow screenshots.
Their point was that you have to jump through ridiculous steps to allow anything at all, so users are trained to jump through them.
I feel fairly confident asserting that users are not trained to go through the steps to enable screenshots. Blindly clicking allow is one thing. Going back and forth to enable restricted settings and then grant the permission is quite another. I use a screenshot app, and am pretty technical, and it took me multiple tries and several minutes including having to go read https://support.google.com/android/answer/12623953#allowrest... because Android is so concerned with protecting me.
Yes. Plus these are not even ridiculous steps, not for capturing the screen.
The bigger issue is users being spammed permission requests in broad categories that you cant deny. Like a headphones needing contacts permission.
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Surely you're talking about Apple's design, no?
With Android, I routinely prohibit random app permissions from many apps, and everything still works just fine.
Does Apple even let you have as fine of a control of permissions as you can have on Android?