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You have two different points in your comment. Firstly, iOS has not been behind on having apps work if they don’t get access to a specific sensor or data. It’s on Android that apps refuse to work if they’re not given contacts access or location access and so on. Comparing the same apps on iOS and Android, I have found that Apple’s requirements for apps not to break when a permission is not granted is well respected and implemented on iOS apps. The same apps on Android apps just refuse to work until all the permissions they ask for are granted. YMMV.

I do agree that iOS is behind by not providing profiles and multiple isolated installations of apps, and it would be great if it did.






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