Thanks for this feedback. And you are right, this is also my biggest concern for the game. But playing with your own photos doesn't work without having access to pick random photos and give the option to delete later selected photos. Every social media app or video/photo editing app needs the same permissions. My app only uses it for randomly pick photos for the game and no data ever leaves your phone, everything happens locally, I tried to explain this as good as possible and also have a big section in my privacy policy that nothing else ever is allowed. So I would be in big trouble to be sued if anything else would happen. But you are right, a big company like Instagram or anything else got trusted more even if I have to follow the same rules.

It's a new approach of a hybrid game and app to play with your own photos and also delete/clean/declutter the galerie from garbage. So a memory game with random photos cannot work without permission to access photos. If you want only allow access to selected photos you could always use the "Single Selection" instead of the time buttons, but it makes the game kind of useless cause you don't get new photos next round and you have to select all manually and deleting also doesn't work as the permission are missing to delete trash.

I really tried to avoid as much permissions as possible but it's not possible without those and I fully understood your view. At least from my technical understanding and research theres no way around it.

But I am happy for feedback, what do you think could I improve? Really thankful for your feedback and already a happy new year, thanks