Google is looking to provide better security to its users by bringing major updates with Android 11. One of these is that it will force all the apps on your smartphone to use the main built-in camera app for photos and videos even if you have other third-party camera apps on your device.  

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Google’s Android team believes that the move will help protect the privacy and security of users and added that apps that need to use the camera will need to explicitly name each and every third-party camera app they’d like to support. It added that the update will stop bad actors from potentially harvesting your location data. 

When this update arrives on Android smartphones, it will make them very close to cameras on Apple iPhones. This will also put popular third-party camera apps on the backfoot. 

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You will still be able to use third-party camera apps by clicking on them from the home screen. For apps like Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok that have cameras built-in you will still be able to take pictures with them. You will also be able to double click on the smartphone power button to launch the camera app you want and apps will also be able to launch the camera app you want but they just will not be able to import any photos or videos that way. 

However, the third-party apps want to use a camera app on your smartphone, instead of its own camera, they will be sent to your phone’s in-built camera app instead of another third-party one. This will stop them from getting access to your location.  

Google says that it is worried about apps that might ask for photo permission so as they can quietly track your location.