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by anonymfus 530 days ago
I believe most of the commercial Android phones already have a regular task that resets permissions for unused apps to serve people who gave permissions accidentally or forgotten about them after setting them deliberately.
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There is something that resets permissions, but only those that were granted and only if the app hasn't been used for a while. I'd find it annoying if I intentionally selected "always" for some given permission in an app I regularly use, only to have it occasionally reset itself. I already find the battery optimization notifications for apps I want running in the background annoying enough.