Google expands Privacy Dashboard in Android 16, enabling 7-day history access

Google expands Privacy Dashboard in Android 16, enabling 7-day history access

Brief:

Android 16 Developer Preview has landed, and with it comes a major enhancement to the Privacy Dashboard, allowing users to track app data access over a longer period.

  1. The Privacy Dashboard Gets a Major Update
  2. What’s New with the Privacy Dashboard?
  3. How to Access the Extended Privacy History
  4. More Android 16 Features on the Horizon

The Privacy Dashboard Gets a Major Update

You can now keep tabs on your apps for a longer period of time.

Android 16 DP1 is extending the Privacy Dashboard’s history access from 24 hours to seven days.

Users will now get a week view of apps that accessed their Location, Camera, and Microphone.

What’s New with the Privacy Dashboard?

Google has rolled out the first Android 16 Developer Preview, and feature spotting is the focus right now.

In addition to what Google officially announced, the update appears to have enhanced history access for Android’s Privacy Dashboard.

Android Privacy Dashboard is a feature introduced by Google in Android 12 to help users gain more visibility and control over the data that apps access on their devices.

In the stable version of Android 15 and even on the latest Android 15 QPR2 Beta 1, users can only view a 24-hour history of app access in the Privacy Dashboard.

How to Access the Extended Privacy History

According to 9to5Google, Privacy Dashboard now offers an expanded seven-day history access.

That means you can view the history of apps that accessed your Location, Camera, and Microphone for up to a week.

In the Privacy Dashboard’s overflow menu, there’s now an option for “Show 7 Days,” which brings up a timeline with the same design as the 24-hour format on Android 15.

More Android 16 Features on the Horizon

You can read more about upcoming Android 16 features here.

We also have details on the Android 16 release timeline, to help you track the latest updates.

For the full report by Androidauthority, you can read the original article here:

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-privacy-dashboard-history-3501353/