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Yes. The storage permission grants an app access to the whole "Internal SD Card", where all your photos, musics, downloads reside. AndroidEnthusiastsStackExchangeisaquestionandanswersiteforenthusiastsandpowerusersoftheAndroidoperatingsystem.Itonlytakesaminutetosignup. Signuptojointhiscommunity Anybodycanaskaquestion Anybodycananswer Thebestanswersarevotedupandrisetothetop Home Public Questions Tags Users Unanswered FindaJob Jobs Companies Teams StackOverflowforTeams –Collaborateandshareknowledgewithaprivategroup. CreateafreeTeam WhatisTeams? Teams CreatefreeTeam Teams Q&Aforwork Connectandshareknowledgewithinasinglelocationthatisstructuredandeasytosearch. Learnmore CanappwithStoragepermissionaccessalldata? AskQuestion Asked 3years,2monthsago Active 3years,2monthsago Viewed 2ktimes 1 WhenIgiveStoragePermissiontoanapp,isittruethatitisabletoaccessalldataontheinternalandexternalmedia,forinstancetheDownloadsfolder?Ordoesitonlygetaccesstostoreandretrieveitsowndatainasandboxedenvironment? permissionsprivacy Share Improvethisquestion Follow askedSep24'18at22:04 GauravKukrejaGauravKukreja 1122bronzebadges 1 Ibelieveitcanaccessalldata,butonemakestheassumptionthattheapponlyaccesseswhatisnecessary. – DogLover Sep24'18at23:22 Addacomment  |  1Answer 1 Active Oldest Votes 2 Yes.Thestoragepermissiongrantsanappaccesstothewhole"InternalSDCard",whereallyourphotos,musics,downloadsreside. It'susuallysafetoassumethatappsyoutrustaccessonlywhattheyneed,butarandomunknownappmayscanyourfilesandexposesomeprivacyproblem. Anappdoesn'tneedanyspecialpermissiontoaccessitsown,sandboxeddata(usually/data/data/and/sdcard/Android/data/). Share Improvethisanswer Follow answeredSep25'18at3:13 iBugiBug 7,13366goldbadges3737silverbadges7575bronzebadges Addacomment  |  YourAnswer ThanksforcontributingananswertoAndroidEnthusiastsStackExchange!Pleasebesuretoanswerthequestion.Providedetailsandshareyourresearch!Butavoid…Askingforhelp,clarification,orrespondingtootheranswers.Makingstatementsbasedonopinion;backthemupwithreferencesorpersonalexperience.Tolearnmore,seeourtipsonwritinggreatanswers. Draftsaved Draftdiscarded Signuporlogin SignupusingGoogle SignupusingFacebook SignupusingEmailandPassword Submit Postasaguest Name Email Required,butnevershown PostYourAnswer Discard Byclicking“PostYourAnswer”,youagreetoourtermsofservice,privacypolicyandcookiepolicy Nottheansweryou'relookingfor?Browseotherquestionstaggedpermissionsprivacyoraskyourownquestion. TheOverflowBlog Whoownsthisoutage?BuildingintelligentescalationchainsformodernSRE Podcast395:Whoisbuildingcloudsfortheindependentdeveloper? FeaturedonMeta Nowlive:Afullyresponsiveprofile Reducingtheweightofourfooter Linked 0 Whendoappsneedstoragepermission? Related 11 Whatdoesthe"modify/deleteUSBstoragecontents"permissionreallymean? 0 AlternativeforStoragepermission 3 Grantanappwriteaccesstoexternalstoragethatdoesnotrequestit? 1 Doesanandroidappshowallpermissionitcanaccess? 0 WhatcananapplikeWhatsAppacessonmyphone 0 Whendoappsneedstoragepermission? 3 CanImount/data/data/(app_name)/onexternalsdcard? 2 Isthereawayforawebsiteorapptoviewthecontentsofmyinternalstoragewithoutmypermission? HotNetworkQuestions WhatCouldExplainASolitaryMountaininaGrassland? WhyarelegaldecisionsintheUSsopoliticized? In-TransitWaitingAreainUSAAirports? Whatdoes"Thebargaintotheletter"mean? HowtomakeLinuxrebootinsteadofremountingthefilesystemasread-only? Howcananoceanofseawaterbehavelikehoneywithoutchangingthechemistry? Whatdoes'dosteakandchips'mean? Projectingshadows,orevenamovie,onthemoon Isitbadpracticecreate"alias"variablestonotuseglobalsorargumentswithlongnamesinamethod? Questionabouttheabbreviationfor2instrumentsinanorchestrasocre WhyistheSecondAmendmentstructureddifferentlyfromallotheramendments? Where(inGermany)isthelandscapebehindthisnewsreader,withagazeboonasmall,lushsteephillsurroundedbyhigher,broaderforestedhills? HowcanIgettrue1"thickoakboards? HowdidR3-S6makeitontoAnakin'sspaceshipwithoutarousingsuspicion? HowtoannotatestaffwithbeatnumbersinLilypond? Howtoaskfriendnottoleavesoquickly,oratleastletmeknowifhedoesn'tplanonstayingverylong? Anunwaveringforce...Whatdoyouget? IsitlegalintheUStoleaveaguninthehandsofaminorwithoutoversight? Whofirstusedthephrase"DeflationaryTheoryofTruth"? ConvertcodepointtoUTF-1 ConvertRegextoMask Isitharmfulltoheatawhetstone WhydidAtarifloppiesrunat288RPM? DoesaserverneedaGPU? morehotquestions Questionfeed SubscribetoRSS Questionfeed TosubscribetothisRSSfeed,copyandpastethisURLintoyourRSSreader. Yourprivacy Byclicking“Acceptallcookies”,youagreeStackExchangecanstorecookiesonyourdeviceanddiscloseinformationinaccordancewithourCookiePolicy. Acceptallcookies Customizesettings