Alot of my friends use Snapchat for messaging but it's really annoying needing to laggily enable the camera every time the app opens. Anyone know a way to make it think it has the camera on but not actually or something? (if you just revoke the camera permission it stops you from using the app entirely)

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Convert your friends over to Signal. Let Snapchat harvest somebody else's personal data.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Signal also did something that angered its userbase by removing SMS support, so now it's harder than ever to try to convert people to Signal.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Can't you just use your normal SMS app?

    Do you understand the reasoning for the removal?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Yes, but it's easier to sell Signal to tech illiterate family members if I tell them "It's a new text app that lets you talk with people with both Android and Iphone" instead of having them groan "Oh no it's another messaging app I have to install".

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  • I saw that, really unfortunate too. And now with the creator leaving signal entirely I don't see it getting better on that front.

    There are a handful of other options out there, but good luck getting more than a small percentage of your contacts to switch to it.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Unfortunately, what you are asking can really only be done on a rooted device and, to my knowledge, Snapchat has root detection which will prevent it from working. There are potentially some 3rd party apps you could use, but those run the risk of deactivating your account

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I really want to know that for another app for a different permission.

    It would be good if we can "trick" an app to think it has a permission and stop bothering us.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago

    Unfortunately it looks like all permission spoofing I saw required root. If you do happen to be rooted I saw that appopps on the play store probably works.

    It would be a very useful feature to add to default android.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    SnapMod has this feature. You can use it with lspatch if you are not rooted.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    If you're on Android 12 or higher with a supported device, you could disable camera access with a quick settings toggle. If the camera is disabled, any app using the camera just gets a black image. (It does cause a popup asking if you want to unblock the camera, but you can just hit cancel.)

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If you really must use Snapchat, there are hardware camera covers you can buy for your phone.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    I just tried revoking the camera permission on my Snapchat app. There's a nag to re-enable it on the main screen, but the navbar at the bottom still lets me access my chats and view snaps from friends.

    Is it not the same for you? I'm running version 12.38.0.45 on Android 10.

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