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by EnKopVand 1451 days ago
I use iOS and I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those lists in the App Store. I don’t insta a lot of apps, however, so maybe I’m not the typical user, but one thing that Apple has is that the actual permissions are off by default.

I had Instagram for a while as an example, because I liked to look at miniature painters, but Instagram never had access to my contacts, images, location data and so on. It would ask for permission of course and I would decline.

Does Google do something similar or are permissions on per default? I mean, the info is still a nice feature in the App Store to help people make better choices, but the real protection for people like me is the “This app would like to access your pictures, will you let it?” box that pop ups when you run the app.