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Android 15 may make it harder for sideloaded apps to get sensitive permissions
Android 15 could introduce a new Enhanced Confirmation Mode that makes it harder for malicious apps to get sensitive permissions.
While Google Play has some (mostly bureaucratic) measures to ensure these APIs are used for their intended purposes, Android itself relies mostly on the app’s own declarations to decide how much access to grant. Although the Enhanced Confirmation Mode feature isn’t yet enabled in the latest Android 15 Beta 1.1 update, I analyzed the code and explained how it’ll work in some detail. This would effectively close the loophole that existed in Android 13’s Restricted Settings feature, making it harder for malicious third-party apps to gain highly privileged permissions.
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