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Permission Manager X

See and switch off the permissions Android keeps hidden

798 GitHub stars AGPL-3.0 Privacy & Security

Made by mirfatif · free and open source

APK fileVersion v1.34-pro5.4 MBupdated 14 days ago

This comes straight from Permission Manager X’s own GitHub page, and it’s free. Need help installing?

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Permission Manager X shows you, app by app, everything an app is allowed to do. That means the ordinary permissions you already see in Settings, like camera, storage and location, plus the AppOps controls Android uses underneath them. AppOps cover things Settings never offers you a switch for, such as clipboard access, running in the background and vibration.

You can grant or revoke each one from a single screen. You can also record a reference state for every permission, so after a reinstall, a new phone or a system update the coloured bars show you at a glance which apps have drifted from what you wanted.

This one is for tinkerers. It only does its job if your phone is rooted or you set up ADB over the network, and some extra features are a paid upgrade. The app's only outside connections are to check for updates and fetch its help pages.

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