Interesting you say that. Android actually gives you control over security and privacy by telling you what your app API's get access to. iOS apps could be transmitting details back to home without your knowledge.
Simply mentioning a laundry list of the myriad things an app will be permitted to do is NOT giving me control over security and privacy.
http://cdn.makeuseof.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/03-Angry...
That's not control, that's bullshit.
Apple got permissions right long before Android did: no third party apps have intrinsic permission to use the microphone, address book, location etc until the OS asks me on behalf of that app. And I can always say no if I want.
https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ximg_56...
It works just the same as iOS, where the first time an app wants to use your location/etc it asks android, which shows a prompt:
https://uit.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/images/2016/08/...
And can be revoked as well:
https://img.gadgethacks.com/img/81/78/63633813117897/0/snapc...
Once you grant e.g. permission to access the microphone to an Android app, it can do so at any time without you noticing. Until you manually go to the settings and revoke the permission, that is.
If you change the permission to ‘always’ the banner won’t show.
Mic recording, on the other hand, is always user-initiated and very explicit.
With the pace of Android adoption, the new permission model isn't even present on half the devices that have been tracked on the Android Dashboard. [1] Versions 6 and 7 combined are at 48% adoption as of this moment, according to this dashboard.
On the iOS side, the granular permissions model has been around since the last seven years or longer, IIRC. And iOS devices have a much higher rate of new OS adoption, which means almost every iOS device currently in use has the same permission model for a lot longer.
[1]: https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html#Pl...
I like to know if an app has access to the network. If it does, don't install unless I trust the parent company.
Actually some of these permissions need to be requested by the first-party apps as well. You can deny the built-in Maps application location updates.
Erm, so could Android apps? You don't need to request permission for internet access anymore.
I am particularly interested in storing my photos somewhere, but the details about the encryption have not led me to believe that Apple can't access my photos, which is a must-have requirement to me.
Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
It says 'encryption-server: yes' for photos, but around this table you have the text:
" For certain sensitive information, Apple uses end-to-end encryption. This means that only you can access your information, and only on devices where you’re signed in to iCloud. No one else, not even Apple, can access end-to-end encrypted information."
and
"These features and their data are transmitted and stored in iCloud using end-to-end encryption: - iCloud Keychain (Includes all of your saved accounts and passwords) - Payment information - Wi-Fi network information - Home data - Siri information"
So alas, no photos.