Facebook explains why Messenger needs permission for your whole phone

Mobile app permissions can be a difficult thing to navigate. Platform makers have to walk a fine line between giving users too much information (and causing confusion or forcing users to ignore it all) and giving too little info (which means users don't know what an app is doing). Android has been getting better about it, but users still wonder why apps need certain permissions. Now, Facebook is explaining why Messenger has so many permissions on Android.

Most of the permissions that Facebook Messenger asks for make sense, because Messenger does quite a lot of things. It needs ...



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