App Sensor Permissions best practice

invalidemail

I'm new to Graphene and love the experience so far. Can someone please confirm the pros/cons of allowing apps to have sensor permissions (and exactly how to tell what sensors are being allowed access)?

Does this impact battery usage at all if I disable them? For example, I'm curious on if the apps use the sensors to know when to wake/or check notifications.

MetropleX

invalidemail it is generally safe to revoke sensors permission for every app and then change it on a case by case basis for apps you may run into problems with.

Sensors permission toggle
Sensors permission toggle: disallow access to all other sensors not covered by existing Android permissions (Camera, Microphone, Body Sensors, Activity Recognition) including an accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, barometer, thermometer and any other sensors present on a given device. To avoid breaking compatibility with Android apps, the added permission is enabled by default.
https://grapheneos.org/features#sensors-permission-toggle

You can read from the above what sensors this affects and then you can determine from that what sort of apps and functionality within them might break if revoked.

invalidemail

Thank you for clarifying. What I wasn't sure of is if various apps use the accelerometer or gyroscope to know when to "wake". I might be over thinking this but if that do and one was to disable sensors the app stays in standby mode consistently draining battery.

Loving GOS and the switch from apple! But I'm an ignorant android user.... :)

MetropleX

invalidemail just use a little common sense, if you downloaded a Compass app and revoke sensors, that will break it as it won't work. If you revoke sensors and notice excessively high battery drain then move from there to determine if it is best to restore or remove and so on.