The issue of protecting personal digital data has become an important issue lately. Well, we try to help provide tips to prevent apps from peeking into private data via the camera or microphone for Android devices.
How to Prevent Camera and Mic ‘Spy’ Apps on Android
1. For most Android devices
For most Android devices, you can screen applications that uselocation, camera, microphone and more via Settings> Privacy> Permission Manager.
After that, you can select ‘Camera’ or ‘Microphone’ and you can see which apps have permission to access and you agree.You can select ‘Allow’ or ‘Deny’ after that.
2. For Samsung Android 10 devices
The first thing you have to do is enter the ‘Settings’ section then select ‘Privacy’ and tap ‘Permission manager’. After that you can see which applications have accessed your camera or contacts. Like the steps above you can select ‘Allow’ or ‘Deny’.
From here you also find hidden applications that might be inserted. The thing you can do is get rid of the application immediately by deleting it. Therefore, then you also have to take preventive steps by not doing:
- Without thinking to open suspicious links
- Installing unofficial applications, for example outside the Google Play Store
- Using any VPN.
Thus you can Prevent Camera and Mic ‘Spy’ Apps on Android. If you have any issues, comment us in the comment box.