La Privacy It has become one of the most valuable weapons of every user. To guarantee that our privacy is assured, it is necessary that the systems we use have tools that allow us to protect ourselves against large companies that profit from our information. iOS 14 brought privacy news as the privacy details per app in the App Store starting to get going. Other functions more at the user level such as the appearance of the orange and green dots on top of the screen was a way of knowing that you are having access to the camera or the microphone. Some of these features, like the latter, could be seen in Android 12 in the coming weeks when it is officially released.
Privacy tools from iOS 14 copied to Android 12
The boys and girls of XDA Developers have leaked some of the Features of the next version of Google's operating system: Android 12. This information comes from an alleged draft of a Google document which reflects the news of what will be the next Android update. However, none of these news has been corroborated by Google, far from it, but they do ensure that the captures with which this information comes from an official document and can be given a high degree of credibility.
Among these new functions associated with improving the privacy of users are: camera and microphone usage indicators. This allows the user to know if there are any apps using any of this information and if they click on them, to know which app is using it. If we analyze this possible new feature of Android 12 we have no doubt that has many aspects in common with the same feature built into iOS 14.
While some outlets call this feature full-blown plagiarism, there are other new privacy-related features that are not available on iOS. Apparently, Android 12 will allow you to eliminate access to the camera and microphone to all apps at the same time. This cannot be done on iPadOS or iOS as you have to define permissions app by app.
There are many other new functions and design changes that many resemble some places in iOS 14. However, Apple has already said on more than one occasion that they are not bothered by the copies of functions in relation to improvements in the Privacy. Actually, Cupertino executives'they are happy to see competitors copy their work. '