Hong Kong: most common app permissions requested 2024

As of March 13, 2024, over 90 percent of app publishers in Hong Kong have adopted user permissions to access internet and network information. 70 percent of app publishers have also used the permission to prevent the phone they are running on from going into sleep mode.

Leading Android app permissions employed by app publishers from Hong Kong as of March 2024

Characteristic	Share of apps
Internet access	96%
Network information access	92%
Phone sleep mode prevention	70%
Write external storage	68%
Install referrer	57%
Read external storage	55%
Install Referrer	54%
WIFI information access	52%
Vibration	47%
Start at boot time	45%

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Release date

May 2023

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Region

Hong Kong

Survey time period

as of March 13, 2024

Special properties

only apps on Google Play Store

Supplementary notes

The data is aggregated based on address, such that only major app publishers and ones with valid Hong Kong addresses on the Android market have been considered.

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