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There should be different permissions for foreground and background access to APIs.


Or there should simply not be background access to certain APIs, such as camera, video, and photo library.

Background audio access on iOS presents a bright red indicator on all non-app screens that can neither be hidden nor removed, as it’s baked into the OS. iOS may require a separate permission dialog for “capture video with sound” and “record sound with/out screen on”, I don’t know. I doubt Android bothers to do any of this.


Agreed. Or at least an admin app that lets the user see which APIs are being accessed by which app.




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