# Remove permission : access modify or delete the content of your sd card

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/remove-permission-access-modify-or-delete-the-content-of-your-sd-card/104852>\
**Category:** ionic-v3\
**Created:** [September 10, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/remove-permission-access-modify-or-delete-the-content-of-your-sd-card/104852 "2017-09-10T15:52:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![yajuve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/2bfe46/32.png) [@yajuve](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/yajuve)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/remove-permission-access-modify-or-delete-the-content-of-your-sd-card/104852/1 "2017-09-10T15:52:30Z")

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I built my app with Ionic 2 and while instaltalation it shows me to accept this permission

**modify or delete the contents of your SD card.  
read the contents of your SD card.**

But i didn’tt add it, i thought that some plugins add it automaticly  
How can i remove it ? because my app doesn’t need to access to SD card.

In my package.json

```auto
"cordova": {
        "plugins": {
            "cordova-plugin-console": {},
            "cordova-plugin-device": {},
            "cordova-plugin-splashscreen": {},
            "cordova-plugin-statusbar": {},
            "cordova-plugin-whitelist": {},
            "ionic-plugin-keyboard": {},
            "cordova-plugin-network-information": {}
        },
        "platforms": [
            "android"
        ]
    }

```

Thank’s

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**Author:** ![Sujan12](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/sujan12/32/108395_2.png) [@Sujan12](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/Sujan12)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/remove-permission-access-modify-or-delete-the-content-of-your-sd-card/104852/2 "2017-09-10T16:30:11Z")

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What does your `config.xml` look like?

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**Author:** ![yajuve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/2bfe46/32.png) [@yajuve](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/yajuve)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/remove-permission-access-modify-or-delete-the-content-of-your-sd-card/104852/3 "2017-09-10T17:31:08Z")

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My config.xml

```auto
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<widget id="com.domain.app" version="1.0.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0">
    <name>Name App</name>
    <description>Description.</description>
    <author email="email@gmail.com" href="http://ionicframework.com/">Ionic Team</author>
    <content src="index.html" />
    <access origin="*" />
    <allow-navigation href="http://ionic.local/*" />
    <allow-intent href="http://*/*" />
    <allow-intent href="https://*/*" />
    <allow-intent href="tel:*" />
    <allow-intent href="sms:*" />
    <allow-intent href="mailto:*" />
    <allow-intent href="geo:*" />
    <preference name="webviewbounce" value="false" />
    <preference name="UIWebViewBounce" value="false" />
    <preference name="DisallowOverscroll" value="true" />
    <preference name="android-minSdkVersion" value="19" />
    <preference name="BackupWebStorage" value="none" />
    <preference name="SplashMaintainAspectRatio" value="true" />
    <preference name="FadeSplashScreenDuration" value="300" />
    <preference name="SplashShowOnlyFirstTime" value="false" />
    <preference name="SplashScreen" value="screen" />
    <preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="3000" />
    <preference name="ShowSplashScreenSpinner" value="false" />
    <preference name="loadUrlTimeoutValue" value="700000" />
    <platform name="android">
        <allow-intent href="market:*" />
        <splash density="land-ldpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-ldpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="land-mdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-mdpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="land-hdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-hdpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="land-xhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-xhdpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="land-xxhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-xxhdpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="land-xxxhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-xxxhdpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="port-ldpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-ldpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="port-mdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-mdpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="port-hdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-hdpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="port-xhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-xhdpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="port-xxhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-xxhdpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="port-xxxhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-xxxhdpi-screen.png" />
        <icon density="ldpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-ldpi-icon.png" />
        <icon density="mdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-mdpi-icon.png" />
        <icon density="hdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-hdpi-icon.png" />
        <icon density="xhdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xhdpi-icon.png" />
        <icon density="xxhdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xxhdpi-icon.png" />
        <icon density="xxxhdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xxxhdpi-icon.png" />
    </platform>
    <platform name="ios">
        <allow-intent href="itms:*" />
        <allow-intent href="itms-apps:*" />
        <icon height="57" src="resources/ios/icon/icon.png" width="57" />
        <icon height="114" src="resources/ios/icon/icon@2x.png" width="114" />
        <icon height="40" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-40.png" width="40" />
        <icon height="80" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-40@2x.png" width="80" />
        <icon height="120" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-40@3x.png" width="120" />
        <icon height="50" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-50.png" width="50" />
        <icon height="100" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-50@2x.png" width="100" />
        <icon height="60" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-60.png" width="60" />
        <icon height="120" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-60@2x.png" width="120" />
        <icon height="180" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-60@3x.png" width="180" />
        <icon height="72" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-72.png" width="72" />
        <icon height="144" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-72@2x.png" width="144" />
        <icon height="76" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-76.png" width="76" />
        <icon height="152" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-76@2x.png" width="152" />
        <icon height="167" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-83.5@2x.png" width="167" />
        <icon height="29" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-small.png" width="29" />
        <icon height="58" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-small@2x.png" width="58" />
        <icon height="87" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-small@3x.png" width="87" />
        <splash height="1136" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-568h@2x~iphone.png" width="640" />
        <splash height="1334" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-667h.png" width="750" />
        <splash height="2208" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-736h.png" width="1242" />
        <splash height="1242" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Landscape-736h.png" width="2208" />
        <splash height="1536" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Landscape@2x~ipad.png" width="2048" />
        <splash height="2048" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Landscape@~ipadpro.png" width="2732" />
        <splash height="768" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Landscape~ipad.png" width="1024" />
        <splash height="2048" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Portrait@2x~ipad.png" width="1536" />
        <splash height="2732" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Portrait@~ipadpro.png" width="2048" />
        <splash height="1024" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Portrait~ipad.png" width="768" />
        <splash height="960" src="resources/ios/splash/Default@2x~iphone.png" width="640" />
        <splash height="480" src="resources/ios/splash/Default~iphone.png" width="320" />
    </platform>
    <icon src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xhdpi-icon.png" />
    <engine name="android" spec="^6.1.0" />
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-device" spec="^1.1.4" />
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-network-information" spec="^1.3.3" />
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-splashscreen" spec="^4.0.3" />
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-statusbar" spec="^2.2.2" />
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-whitelist" spec="^1.3.1" />
    <plugin name="ionic-plugin-keyboard" spec="^2.2.1" />
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing" spec="~5.1.8" />
</widget>

```

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**Author:** ![Sujan12](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/sujan12/32/108395_2.png) [@Sujan12](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/Sujan12)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/remove-permission-access-modify-or-delete-the-content-of-your-sd-card/104852/4 "2017-09-10T17:35:21Z")

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Nothing requesting permissions here. Go through the plugin’s `plugin.xml` and see which one does (a `<permission>` tag would be an indicator)

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**Author:** ![yajuve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/2bfe46/32.png) [@yajuve](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/yajuve)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/remove-permission-access-modify-or-delete-the-content-of-your-sd-card/104852/5 "2017-09-10T17:40:38Z")

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the plugin.xml of : cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing  
contains this permission

```auto
    <config-file target="AndroidManifest.xml" parent="/*">
      <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
    </config-file>

```

could be the reason !

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**Author:** ![Sujan12](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/sujan12/32/108395_2.png) [@Sujan12](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/Sujan12)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/remove-permission-access-modify-or-delete-the-content-of-your-sd-card/104852/6 "2017-09-10T17:42:10Z")

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Yep, looks like it.

Now you have to find out why it needs this and if you can somehow get rid of it.

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**Author:** ![yajuve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/2bfe46/32.png) [@yajuve](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/yajuve)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/remove-permission-access-modify-or-delete-the-content-of-your-sd-card/104852/7 "2017-09-10T17:48:52Z")

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Okay i’ll try but it doesn’t look easy to edit plugin code  
Thank you @Sujan12

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**Author:** ![SigmundFroyd](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/sigmundfroyd/32/111604_2.png) [@SigmundFroyd](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/SigmundFroyd)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/remove-permission-access-modify-or-delete-the-content-of-your-sd-card/104852/8 "2017-09-10T18:25:37Z")

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Looking through the [SocialSharing.java](https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/SocialSharing-PhoneGap-Plugin/blob/master/src/android/nl/xservices/plugins/SocialSharing.java) file, it looks like this permission is required as it’ll either be downloading external files (?) but more importantly it seems to often move files to a temporary directory, naturally requiring write permissions.