I feel like I’m encountering weird little tics and problems with my android devices, and those of family and friends. Just simple things where settings don’t seem to be consistently applied, or the os switches something back repeatedly. For example, my apps are set to auto update, to use data as well as WiFi, etc, but every month or so I go into Play and see that some random app hasn’t been updated in weeks.
Or my friend only gets Signal notifications when they open the app, despite giving full background data use, turning off adaptive battery, etc. My mother uses an alarm app that needs to display over the screen for a feature, but despite me setting that permission repeatedly Android keeps turning it off.
Is this just anecdotal bad luck? Or is all the work to preserve battery life, control background usage, etc led to an OS where the user can’t control things reliably? It starting to feel a lot like MS Windows!
Yeah with permissions there is this stupid feature in Android and Google Play protect that keeps revoking permissions if you don’t use an App for some time.
Also they are still constantly trying new ways to “figure out” what Apps should run in the background instead of giving the user any controll. I.m.o. there should just be a “Allow up to run background” permission you can turn on and off and which logs exactly when a app was running the background.
That drives me mad I manually went through every single app turning this off, it still does it anyway.