Google has announced that it will add an important privacy feature of Android 11 to all devices covering the Android 6 to Android 10 December. This feature, which will reach billions of users, resets the user permissions of unused applications after a certain period of time.
The US-based technology giant Google has announced the start of a new era for billions of Android phones. According to the company’s statements, devices using Android 6 and later will receive a new update as of December. This update will allow a feature with Android 11 to be used on many more smartphones.
Google has introduced a feature that is important for user privacy with Android 11. This feature was resetting all sensitive permissions granted to an unused application for several months. In this way, unused applications could not access users dec data such as their camera, location, or call history. With the new decision made by Google, this situation will cover a large part of the Android phones that are working in the world.
The update process will be completed in the first quarter of 2022
According to Google, the update process for Android 11, which will be sent to all devices using operating systems in the Android 6 to Android 10 range, will continue for several months. Google notes that the entire process will be completed in the first quarter of 2022.
All devices that use Android 11 and have an API level of 30 and above can automatically activate the ability to reset user permissions. However, the statements made by Google show that Android devices with API levels in December the range of 23 and 29 are able to activate this feature manually. Probably, Google will tell you how to activate the feature with a guide that it will create after publishing the update
