Jamf: These are the most common permissions requested by popular apps

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Jamf: These are the most common permissions requested by popular apps
August 26, 2021
https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/26/jamf...ns-requested-by-popular-apps-in-a-new-report/

Jamf, the popular Apple enterprise partner, has released a new report that details the most common permissions that apps are requesting on Apple’s App Store.

Jamf used metadata within a sample of almost 100,000 popular apps across the store catalog. This sample was determined by looking at the apps that are installed within Wandera’s customer base, which has 2.5 million devices under its management. The metadata analyzed in the research came from aggregated logs that don’t contain any identifying information.
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Jamf’s analysis shows the most requested data type is photos, with at least half the apps across every category requesting access to a device’s photo library.
The camera app is the second most popular permission requested.

The third most requested permission requested is location.
The fourth most popular app permission request is the microphone.
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Key takeaways
So what are the key things we should take away from this report? Here’s what Jamf had to say:

Despite improvements by both Apple and Google in promoting personal privacy, consumers need to take steps of their own to secure their data. The purpose of this research is to encourage users to consider the data they are sharing before accepting any request that appears on their devices. There are some data points in this analysis that aren’t surprising, and some that are.
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