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Google Confirms Android 11 Will Limit Third-party Camera Apps Because Of Locatio by spunkytech(m): 5:21am On Aug 21, 2020
Google is making a change in Android 11 that will force apps that want to take photos or video to use the phone’s built-in camera app — even if you’ve made a different camera app, like OpenCamera, your default choice for photos.

We believe it’s the right trade-off to protect the privacy and security of our users, the Android engineering team wrote that apps that call on the camera would need to explicitly name each and every third-party camera app they’d like to support. Now, Google’s giving us the reason: it’s to keep bad actors from potentially harvesting your location.


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