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)
Convert your friends over to Signal. Let Snapchat harvest somebody else’s personal data.
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.
Can’t you just use your normal SMS app?
Do you understand the reasoning for the removal?
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.
In developer options on youransdroid phone there is a setting you can enable that will add a quick setting tile that toggles on and off the sensors in your phone. It also includes rhe microphone and camera. It’s great for something like this.
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.)
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
