[nerdjon]

Off topic of the lending apps but something I have long wanted to see is actual information about the data accessed by these apps.

Maybe Android has this, but on iOS I can go into privacy and easily see what apps have access to what data (and easily revoke that permission).

But I don't see any kinds of metrics that would indicate that an app is possibly abusing that permission.

For example, it would be awesome if I could go look at photos or contacts and see a percent for how much that app has accessed that data and maybe even a graph overtime so I can see if it was a one time thing or its mining for data.

There is the app privacy report on iOS that gives me some of this data, but it doesn't give me how much data it is accessing. Which I think is the critical part.

If I give an app access to my photos I expect its going to access it, but without knowing what its doing its not quite as useful. Still useful, but not as useful.

[mattzito]

Android has it:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/26/google-play-launches-its-o...

[nerdjon]

Unless I am missing something, that is all on the play store side before you download an app?

I am talking after you have the app installed to actually see what it is doing. Specifically what it is doing.

On iOS I can see that an app is accessing photos and I can see when, but I can't see what or how much.

The feature you mentioned is similar to the labels that iOS has. It even says that in the header.

[hadrien01]

I have that feature on my tablet (Android 12L or 13), but like you I can only see when ("last 24h"), nothing else.

Edit: I just checked because the screen design felt weird compared to the rest of the settings, it's controlled by Google: com.google.android.permissioncontroller (and it hides Google permission usage by default...)

[nerdjon]

Does it at least show Google’s apps? When I check the App Privacy Report on iOS I see the built in Mail, Messages, Safari and others.

As well as seeing iCloud at the top of my “most contacted domains”.

But under app network activity I don’t see system level processes (at least I don’t think I do). Unless it still falls under an app… like iCloud domain lists safari and find my for the related apps.

Honestly I just want an audit log. I’m glad both are putting steps in catch bad apps but it’s missing the data to really see if it’s misbehaving.

[charcircuit]

Yes it shows Google apps. On my phone it lets you switch between last 24 hours and last 7 days. And lets you toggle whether or not system apps are included.

[AlexandrB]

Yeah, something like Little Snitch but for any access to "sensitive" areas of a phone (location, contacts, camera, microphone, photos) in addition to network access would be cool.