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I noticed that all the apps on my Pixel 8 has the "Allow background usage" option enabled. Didn't this use to be an opt-in setting?

I'm worried that something got messed up when I had to do a copy from my Pixel 8 (Android 15) to my old Pixel 5 (Android 14) and back to my Pixel 8 again (I had to factory reset my Pixel 8 before sending it in for repair).

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't have a Pixel 8 but that sounds highly unusual. I suspect you're right, maybe the option didn't exist in the same way on Android 14 and so it's copied over in a weird way.

I don't know a way to fix them other than just updating them all one by one. In recent Android versions the app can prompt you if it's missing the settings so it should be pretty safe to just disable it for everything that doesn't obviously need background usage.

[–] kent 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks. I might just do that.

I was wondering if the system is doing some kind of app profiling, and if it automatically will remove the permission from the apps some time in the future? Like it does with other app permissions on unused apps...

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Android by default does remove permissions from unused apps, and the run in background permission is one of the ones it will remove. It doesn't say on that page but I think the threshold is 3 months.