Permissions and their definitions:
The Pinterest accessed the many permissions to its updated version in both Android and iPhone devices. The following are the definitions of every individual permission.
Contacts:
The Pinterest application using contacts feature to edit modify and delete to their friend’s list.
- Read your contacts
- Modify your contacts
- Delete contacts from Messenger.
Photos/Media/Files:
The application can use files or data stored on your device and may access the abilities.
- Read the contents of your USB storage
- Modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
- Format external storage
- Mount or unmount external storage.
Identity:
The app will use your account or profile information on your device, the identity access the following abilities.
- Find accounts on the device
- Read your own contact card
- Modify your own contact card
- Add or remove accounts.
Wi-Fi connection:
- An app can access your device’s Wi-Fi connection information if like Wi-Fi turned on and the name and the password connected. Since the Internet will not give much faster than the Wi-Fi, Hence many users prefer to use the application through Wi-Fi connections to their devices.
Storage:
The feature which accesses to save, edit and delete the media files and documents.
- Read the content from your USB
- Modify and delete the content from the USB storage.
Microphone:
The app also accesses your device to record audio clips.
- Record audio.
Location:
The application also accessible to trace out your current location:
- Approximate location based on the network
- Precise location with GPS and network-based.
- Access extra location provider commands.
- Complete GPS access.
Others:
- Receive Internet data
- View network connections
- Prevent device from sleeping
- Control near field communication
- Run at startup
- Full network access
- Set wallpaper
- Use accounts on the device
- Read Google device configurations