Comment by robertlagrant

It has certainly been locked down a bit. This makes easily backing up all your data using some techniques harder/impossible.

I can't include podcasts in the backup I do via rsync via termux anymore, unless I switch to an app that uses a shared storage area instead, as termux can not longer read app directories only its own and shared storage. You have to rely on each app that used app-local storage to have its own backup method. Not that I really care from the podcast PoV, hence I've done nothing about it, but it is a sign of apps being better sandboxed at the filesystem level than they used to be.

Is it not the same for computers most of the apps data is accessible by all the apps. Mobile OS came from the paradigm of the past and as the way we use our phones change so do the way how mobile os work. For a long time Android devs have wanted to obfuscate the disk from the user like iOS does but have faced push back from users and developers so in the end they created a permission where an app needs to ask permission to access the disk. Keeping the file system a black box or allowing user/apps to mess with it is a development question of the times dumb it down or not. Then people here complain children don't know anything about computers these days well yeah because we have dumbed it down so much in the name of security and usablity.

By default you can `ls` almost anything on an entire drive.

That is how it works. Apps on android and iOS can’t access data outside of their contsiner.