MIUI has some more additional permissions compared to the normal bare Android. Some users usually don’t understand what they mean, or what they exactly do at all. Although they might seem for security, sometimes they are still hard to understand. This post will show you one by one what they mean and what they do.
Modify System Settings
This permission lets the app use the system-level actions, such as changing brightness or locking the phone, or more stuff that’s required for the app to run that uses system settings.
Change WLAN Connectivity
As the name says, this permission lets the app to change WLAN/Wi-Fi connection & switch between Wi-Fi connections without asking the user over and over again. If this permission is normally not granted, MIUI will just give you a pop-up every time to allow or decline it for one time. When this permission is granted, it will allow without asking.
Change Bluetooth Connectivity
This is the same thing as Wi-Fi, but it’s applied for Bluetooth instead. This permission lets the app to change Bluetooth connections & switch between Bluetooth connections without asking the user over and over again. If this permission is normally not granted, MIUI will just give you a pop-up every time to allow or decline it for one time. When this permission is granted, it will allow without asking.
Add Homescreen Shortcuts
This permission does exist in MIUI so that the app doesn’t abuse and spam your home screen with icons and therefore lag the device. MIUI doesn’t show any pop-up or notification when the app tries to use this permission, so you can’t know if the app tries to create a shortcut on the home screen. If you allow this permission, MIUI will just let the app create home screen shortcuts without any pop-ups as well.
Show in lock screen
This permission lets the app still display itself on the lock screen of the device. This permission is mostly needed for the apps like one of these lock screen apps that display over normal ones as an example.
Display pop-up windows while running in the background
This permission lets the app display things while the app is not in the foreground/the background. This permission is usually for the apps such as screen recorders, CPU frequency apps and much much more for example. This does exist in MIUI so the app doesn’t abuse the permission to block your screen as well if the app is malicious. This permission also exists in bare android but with a different name as “Display over other apps”.
Display pop-up windows
This permission is mostly the same as above. But instead, it’s for the apps like Facebook Messenger to show their chat bubbles. In short, this permission is for chat bubbles generally.
MIUI itself describes the permission as above picture.
Permanent Notification
This permission exists in MIUI so that the app doesn’t abuse permanent notifications in such cases as spamming it and lagging the phone.
Get Info About Installed Apps
This permission exists in MIUI so that the app can/can’t have access to a list of your apps, like private ones and limits the app from having info about your app list and sharing them outside.
Read about calendar events
As the name says, this permission lets the app to access your whole calendar including your appointments and events and such. If it’s not determined before, MIUI will show a pop-up about to allow the app to use this permission or not.
Access accounts on the device
This permission lets the app to have the information about your accounts on the device. No, it doesn’t let the app know the sensitive stuff like the account passwords. It’s just there so that the app can know if you’re pirating for example by checking the account and comparing with the license of the app so if you bought that app officially or pirated it.
Body Sensors
This permission lets the app to access sensors like proximity, orientation, and more sensors that are in the phone. This permission is for apps like step counters, or some games for orientation sensors.
Access Activity Info
This permission is being used to let the app access your activity in the phone, like the apps you enter, when do you unlock the phone, when do you take a picture, and such more like the ones explained. This is a sensitive permission and we suggest you to keep it off.
Access And Save Items To Clipboard
This permission lets the app see the items that you copied and let the app add items to there as well. This is a sensitive permission and we suggest you to disable it. If you copied things like bank information, app is able to access it.