Which option correctly explains the READ_MEDIA_IMAGES / READ_MEDIA_VIDEO / READ_MEDIA_AUDIO permission split introduced in Android 13 and what privacy improvement does it provide over READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE?
- A.READ_MEDIA_IMAGES covers all of the media types on the volume, images, audio and video alike (the split affects the wording of the dialog rather than the scope of the grant), and an app requesting one of the three receives the other two along with it. The privacy improvement is presentational: the user reads a narrower sentence, and the platform records the same broad grant it always recorded under the older permission string.
- B.The three permissions are equivalent to READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (Google split the string for organizational tidiness), and every app holding any one of them reaches all media on the volume: the privacy improvement is a clearer manifest, and nothing about the enforcement changed with Android 13.
- C.Android 13 removed the media permissions entirely (the Storage Access Framework replaced them), and every app now opens a picker for each file it needs: the privacy improvement is that no standing grant exists at all, and the user approves each item individually at the moment of access.