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Disable usage tracking of some apps

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tommyhills0
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Galaxy S25

For privacy reasons, can we disable both battery and other usage tracking (such as last time an app accessed the location info) to show up in various Settings menus for certain apps?

If that is not possible for each app, is it possible to do that for all apps in the Secure Folder? Currently these apps still show up like any other app in usage tracking.

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realaud
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Galaxy S25

How many people are looking at your phone and inspecting your usage, that this needs to be private? Is your spouse going into your phone to find out how often you access Tindr?  And it shouldn't matter for things in your secure folder because, presumably, you are the only one with access to it.

tommyhills0
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Yes! That's exactly why I'm asking! How do you know šŸ˜‰

All jokes aside, if the functionality to meant to be privacy oriented, then the question is completely warranted.

realaud
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I'm not sure that's supposed to a privacy-oriented feature.  It's more like it's informational so you can see how often you use an app, if it's an app you use rarely and can uninstall; and the location aspect of it is in the case of certain apps, if you were in California and your banking app shows as having been opened in India, you would know something is amiss.  Although, I agree you should be able to turn this off if you so desire.

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