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by FDSGSG 1763 days ago
Yes, it says "ghaff's phone battery level is low. Call may end soon."

I think this results in a much better experience for everyone on the call.

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I guess I don't really want an app doing that given it could probably tell participants other things that I don't want them to know, especially if I enabled something like location services.
This feels like a weird slippery slope fallacy.
That's what Permissions controls are for.
Permission controls are a bandaid as someone else wrote.

Let's use the location services example.

So some communications app asks me for permission. Do I grant it? Well, as an unsophisticated user, maybe it wants this info to optimize the quality of my connection in some way. So maybe I ought to give it permission?

Instead, maybe it's going to broadcast my coordinates to everyone else on the call which is not OK in general.