{"id":231392,"date":"2026-04-04T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/i-spent-20-minutes-reviewing-my-windows-11-app-permissions-and-changed-6-settings-right-after\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T07:45:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:45:32","slug":"i-spent-20-minutes-reviewing-my-windows-11-app-permissions-and-changed-6-settings-right-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/i-spent-20-minutes-reviewing-my-windows-11-app-permissions-and-changed-6-settings-right-after\/","title":{"rendered":"I spent 20 minutes reviewing my Windows 11 app permissions and changed 6 settings right after"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-spent-20-minutes-reviewing-my-windows-11-app-permissionshere-are-the-6-settings-i-changed\/\">I spent 20 minutes reviewing my Windows 11 app permissions and changed 6 settings right after<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-spent-20-minutes-reviewing-my-windows-11-app-permissionshere-are-the-6-settings-i-changed\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-spent-20-minutes-reviewing-my-windows-11-app-permissionshere-are-the-6-settings-i-changed\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-04 16:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t tend to think of myself as someone who ignores privacy settings, but when I actually sat down and spent 20 minutes or so going through Windows 11&#8217;s app permissions, I found six things I should have changed a long time ago. None of these require any technical knowledge and is pretty straightforward to check on your own PC. Here&#8217;s what I found, where each setting lives, and why it&#8217;s worth the 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\t9 Windows Privacy Settings You Should Change Right Now<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Take a few minutes to change these settings and reduce the data Windows collects about you.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"microphone-access-for-apps-that-had-no-business-having-it\">\n                        Microphone access for apps that had no business having it<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"why-does-a-feedback-tool-need-my-mic\">\n            Why does a feedback tool need my mic?<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>   &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-spent-20-minutes-reviewing-my-windows-11-app-permissionshere-are-the-6-settings-i-changed\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent 20 minutes reviewing my Windows 11 app permissions and changed 6 settings right&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/04\/privacy-settings-on-pc.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231394,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231392\/revisions\/231394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}