Don’t understand why your app for reading eBooks needs permission to your phone logs or why your restaurant menu app keeps using GPS to determine your location while draining your battery?
Up until now the easiest thing to do was to uninstall (or not install) that app.
But Android Police found a hidden feature in Android 4.3 that allows you to disable some permissions for apps on a per-app basis.
It’s called App Ops, and it’s apparently not ready for prime time yet, so Google has sort of hidden it away in Android 4.3. It’ll probably be easier to access in future updates. But there’s an unofficialPermission Manager app that makes it easy to access the new settings. It should work on any device running Android 4.3.
Not only does App Ops let you turn off permissions for apps, deciding that Google Search, for instance, can’t access your location. But it’ll also tell you when the last time was that you actually used that feature — so you might be able to get a sense of how often you’re currently using a permission. That could help decide if you really want to disable it.
This is a pre-release feature, so while you can play with it now you might want to make a note of your existing settings and proceed with caution. There’s a chance you could break something and cause some apps to stop functioning properly
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