📱 Review and Revoke App Permissions

TYPE	AUDIENCE	PRIORITY	COMPLEXITY	EFFORT	COST	UPDATED
Preparation	🧑	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐	⭐⭐	🧑🧑	🆓	2021-06-11

Rationale

Since apps sometimes have more access to your data than they need, you should revoke any permissions you've given them which they don't need to function.

Instructions

What you should know

1. When reviewing the list of permissions given to an app, it's OK to remove all the permissions you don't think the application should have. If the application really needs it while you are using it, it will ask you to re-enable the permission to continue using the app as intended. So it is safe to remove permissions.

What you should do

1. Review App Permissions and Revoke unnecessary ones.

How do you know what is unnecessary? Ask yourself why the app might need access to this part of your phone (e.g. Signal uses a microphone for phone calls) but if a Calendar app has access to your camera, that doesn't make sense, so you can revoke it.

So go through the list of apps / permissions and revoke the ones which are not necessary. Start with the most sensitive permissions (Camera, Microphone, Location, Storage) and if you have time also do the others.

On 🤖 ANDROID:
1. Tap Settings
2. Tap Apps
3. Tap ⚙ icon
4. Tap App permissions
5. Go into each of the permission as shown in the image below, and uncheck the apps which should not have this permission

On 🍏 iOS:
1. Tap Settings
2. Tap Privacy
3. Go into each of the permission as shown in the image below, and uncheck the apps which should not have this permission

Sources : LifeWire, AppleInsider