Malware targeting Android devices has increased, often exploiting permissions that users unknowingly grant. While Android's open nature makes it a target, you can protect your device by carefully ...

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Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. First spotted after the June Google Play system update, this refreshed permissions prompt only appears for users running Android 16 ...

Since Android 13, sideloaded apps have had a harder time getting accessibility permissions. Malicious apps often use them to try to breach the victim’s security and privacy, so Google has focused on ...

Android 15 could introduce a new Enhanced Confirmation Mode that makes it harder for malicious apps to exploit an OS loophole. Android blocks users from easily enabling the Accessibility or ...

Google’s built-in privacy dashboard and Android’s evolving privacy settings give users more granular control over personal data, app permissions, and tracking. Updates such as Android 17’s Contact ...

Android apps really do use those permissions they ask for to access users’ personal information: one online store records a phone’s location up to 10 times a minute, French researchers have found. The ...

Dallas was working on cars at a Honda dealership rocking a MyTouch 4G when Artem and the gang started Android Police. It was this very website that got him into Android in the first place — he'd sneak ...