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Notification Settings — Investigate Issues with "Manage App if Unused"
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Description
We may have another issue with permissions including contacts, notifications, and alarms. Android can, by default, remove or reduce these permissions without informing the user. This could lead to users who know they allowed certain permissions believing a feature isn't working because they don't know their system revoked the permission.
Possible solutions could include documentation, a link to the app info page or permissions to allow the user to check it in a help document or from our settings directly, and informing support that this could be an issue on some devices.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing how Android’s “Manage App if Unused” setting affects contacts, notification, and alarm permissions on supported devices. Review the app’s current settings and help flows, then define a confirmed impact and a specific solution—documentation, an app-info link, an in-app prompt, or support guidance—as the completion criteria.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- authorization, mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100