{"id":7551,"date":"2021-05-19T22:02:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T20:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/bluetooth-scanning-wont-require-location-permission-in-android-12-thanks-to-covid-19-tracing\/"},"modified":"2021-05-19T23:09:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:09:47","slug":"bluetooth-scanning-wont-require-location-permission-in-android-12-thanks-to-covid-19-tracing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/bluetooth-scanning-wont-require-location-permission-in-android-12-thanks-to-covid-19-tracing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth Scanning Won&#039;t Require Location Permission In Android 12 \u2013 Thanks To COVID-19 Tracing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Android 12, apps that need Bluetooth Scanning won\u2019t need to ask for location permissions. And this is actually a feature that came from the COVID-19 tracing apps that launched last year \u2013 at the height of the pandemic.<br \/>\nWith the COVID-19 tracing apps, Google introduced an exemption that would allow apps to scan for Bluetooth, without needing to ask for permission to track your location. And now that is coming out to all of Android 12.<br \/>\nBasically, what this boils down to is, the fact that there will be less apps that need to ask for location permission. As it can simply ask for permission to \u201cfind, connect to, and determine the relative position of nearby devices\u201d. And yes it is actually a new permission in Android.<br \/>\nApps will need to update to use these new permissions<br \/>\nAs you might expect, apps won\u2019t be able to use this new permission automatically. Developers will need to update their apps to use the new Bluetooth Scan and Bluetooth Connect permissions.<br \/>\nCurrently, the feature is technically live in the first beta, but since there are no apps that are compatible with these new permissions yet, you won\u2019t really see this pop up yet. You won\u2019t see it until apps are updated to use the Bluetooth Scan and Bluetooth Connect permissions.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s good news all around, as this means less apps are going to be using your location (which also saves some battery), when all they want to do is look for Bluetooth devices around you. Which is quite a few apps actually. You\u2019d be surprised how many apps ask for location, just to look for nearby devices. So it\u2019s a step in the right direction when it comes to privacy with Android 12.<br \/>\nThis is just one of many changes in Android 12, and many of which are not even yet available in this first beta.<br \/>\nThe post Bluetooth Scanning Won&#8217;t Require Location Permission In Android 12 \u2013 Thanks To COVID-19 Tracing appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Android-12-AH-5.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Android 12, apps that need Bluetooth Scanning won\u2019t need to ask for location permissions. And this is actually a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7552,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7553,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions\/7553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}