The new OS version keeps a log of how often each app accesses your location, camera, microphone, files or contacts. It will show you a graph so you can decide to remove permissions manually, but the system can do it automatically too. It will also keep an eye out for malicious behavior from apps, suspicious network activity and other threats. Untrusted apps can be given bogus permissions, which will allow them to open e.g. a seemingly empty image gallery or an SMS inbox with nothing in it.

The system also has easy tools to remove potentially sensitive data when sharing photos – the embedded time and location, for example. It can also scan through screenshots and blur out phone numbers, addresses and so on.

It’s privacy to protect against who they deem malicious actors. If you think Huawei is a malicious actor, there’s nothing here that will ever please you, so move on.