Permissions

Every time you install an app on your iPhone, it comes with permissions attached — permissions that determine what it can and can’t do. These permissions cover some pretty fundamental parts of iOS, including access to the iPhone camera, microphone, and current location. The permissions get asked for one by one as they’re needed, so you’ve got plenty of control over how your apps are behaving. But sometimes, especially when you’re in a hurry, it’s easy to accidentally give permission for an app to access data it doesn’t…

Your phone, your rules: Android gives you a pretty comprehensive toolkit when it comes to managing app permissions on your device, enabling you to control access to parts of the system like the camera, the microphone, and your current location.Apps will ask for these permissions one by one as they need them, so you’ll typically see a flurry of requests while an app is setting itself up as well as more sporadic requests later on (when an app needs access to your photos and videos, for example).You can change these…

sudo chmod -R ugo+rw /usr/share/da Also, if you're working with a file and not a folder, simply remove the -R option from the command. Once you've issued the command, you can verify it worked by issuing another command: The above command will create an empty file, called test, in /usr/share/data. If the command worked, congratulations, you've successfully changed the permissions of the folder. Say you've created a script that will back up the contents of your ~/Documents directory. To run that script, it must have…

Threads made its debut yesterday in over 100 countries and in just a couple of hours, it gained more than a million users and then rocketed past 30 million. That apart, there is a huge concern being expressed over how the new app is treating users' privacy. So much so that former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has taken a dig at it. In contrast, Twitter has over 200 million active users on a daily basis.Dorsey, who now heads Twitter rival Bluesky, posted a tweet about Threads saying, “All the Threads belong to us,” with a…

Threads, the recently introduced microblogging app by Meta, is the new platform that will…

Programmitaclly sharing Google Sheets with specific users using the Python APIPhoto by Artur Tumasjan on UnsplashSharing a Google Sheet with others is an easy and straightforward task that can be done through the user interface. However, what if you need to share multiple Google Sheets with a specific user or service account?Imagine you have created hundreds of external tables on BigQuery that consume data from various Google Sheets. If another service, like Apache Airflow, executes queries referencing those tables, you…

Published By: Paras YadavLast Updated: April 12, 2023, 10:45 ISTImage used for Representation. (Photo: IANS)Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan said funds have been allocated for the highways passing through the coastal and high-range regions of the stateKerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday said the groundwork for building a new airport at Sabarimala has started after obtaining the necessary permissions.Vijayan said this while inaugurating a major road project in Pathanamthitta district where the famous hilltop…

Maybe you’ve been too lenient in the past.Photo: GizmodoApps and websites are always wanting more, aren’t they? More data, more privileges, more control. As a result, you’ll often get a flurry of permissions or cookie pop-ups whenever you open up an app or a site for the first time, pop-ups that you might not always be paying full attention to as you try to get on with the task at hand.In your haste to clear these dialogs, you might not always realize what you’re agreeing too—or perhaps your opinion of and level of trust…

A new change in the latest iOS 16.1 beta makes it easier to control which apps have access to the clipboard following a mess that saw permission dialogs appear constantly.The iOS 16 release caused some apps to repeatedly ask for permission to access data copied by others, but the iOS 16.0.2 update addressed that. With iOS 16.1, Apple is going further by adding a new menu that gives people per-app control over how they handle the clipboard.Permission grantedWith iOS 16.1 beta 4 installed users can now head to the Settings…

After initially removing them in place of Data Safety labels, tech giant Google has now said that it is rolling back the app permissions list on the Play Store.The tech giant, however, did not specify when the permission section will be back on the Play Store, reports TechCrunch. "Privacy and transparency are core values in the Android community. We heard your feedback that you find the app permissions section in Google Play useful, and we have decided to reinstate it. The app permissions section will be back shortly,"…