Manage App Permissions on Nexus 6P

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You're watching VisiHow. In this tutorial, I'm going to demonstrate how to manage application permissions on the Nexus 6P.

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   From the home screen, take two fingers and swipe down

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   This will reveal the gear-shaped icon on the top right corner of the screen

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   Tap it once.

   

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   Scroll down until you reach the "Apps" menu

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   Tap it once.

   

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   Then tap on the gear shaped icon in the top right corner

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   Then tap on "App permissions."

   

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   It's going to group all of your apps by the permission type and number of apps that request that permission type

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   For instance, I have four apps that have requested my calendar access

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   And I have 29 apps that have requested access to my Contacts.

   

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   Let's look at those apps for contacts and tap it once

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   I imagine most of these apps are requesting the contacts permission so that it will be easy to email the contacts. I may or may not need to contact other people while using any of these apps. One of these in particular that I noticed was "Wizz Air" that requested permission to contacts. And it's just an Airline. So I don't need to give permission to the contacts information for Wizz Air.

   

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   Tap on the toggle

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   The phone will read "This app was designed for an older version of Android. Denying permission may cause it to no longer function as intended."

   

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    Choose "DENY" anyway

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    Let's go back to the home screen by tapping the circle icon

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    See if the app still functions by tapping on the it

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    It seems to work OK. I don't see any negative consequences to change that.

    

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This has been a video tutorial on how to change and manage application permissions on the Nexus 6P.

If you have problems with any of the steps in this article, please ask a question for more help, or post in the comments section below.

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