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Google Play Limiting Android 11+ Apps From Seeing What's Installed on Devices This May
Thursday April 1, 2021. 10:04 PM , from Slashdot
Google today announced a series of policy updates for apps distributed through the Play Store. The most impactful sees Google limit most developers from seeing which Android apps are installed on your device. From a report: As part of its ongoing work to restrict the use of high risk/sensitive permissions, Google is limiting what apps can use the QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission that 'gives visibility into the inventory of installed apps on a given device.' This applies to apps that target API 30+ on devices running Android 11 and newer. Enforcement was originally meant to occur earlier, but delayed in light of COVID-19.
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