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With Android 12, Google introduced status bar indicators that essentially serve as alerts for whenever an app accesses your ...

Faith writes guides, how-tos, and roundups on the latest Android games and apps for Android Police. You'll find her writing about the newest free-to-play game to hit Android or discussing her paranoia ...

Many Android apps ask for your current location to show you more relevant results or help with directions, but most don’t need your precise GPS coordinates to do the job. That’s why Android offers two ...

Android already warns when your location is being tracked — but not by which apps. That puts the onus on users to play ...

Keep an eye out for a little dot in the status bar.

Google has added a new blue dot that notifies the user if an app is using location permissions, just like the green ...

Modern smartphones have long been equipped with location-aware features that combine global positioning system (GPS) hardware with other features like Wi-Fi and cellular triangulation to help get an ...

Google giveth — and Google taketh away. If there’s one thing we’ve learned as Android-adoring animals over the years, it’s that you can’t ever fully count on Google to stick with something forever.