[sib]

But that's not really precise. Halide needs access to the camera to take any pictures at all, whether there are advanced controls or not, and for crappy or pro-level photography.

In other words, "camera app needs access to the camera."

[nucleardog]

“Needs access to the camera” is inherent in the modal popping up in the first place.

Explain why you need it and what you’ll use it for.

“Halide needs access to the camera to capture the photos you take.”

Capture photos, that’s obvious. Will only be used when _I_ choose to take photos. That’s good to know!

Contrast with something like “App needs access to capture the photos you take as well as perform periodic background captures and image recognition to provide feedback to our advertising partners.”… Wait, what?!

Still silly, but I don’t think there’s no room for more precision and clarity here. The prompt Halide is using doesn’t actually say they’re _not_ doing the second one.

[sib]

Agree that there's not zero room for improvement.

I just think that it's a silly reason to reject this app.

(And I say that as someone who used to work at Google in the Android org - and I'd make the same comment if the Play Store did it.)