Well there's nothing wrong with 3rd party apps in general. In fact I've been using Android for over a decade now and the dialer and contacts apps on my phone are the only first party apps I use - I use 3rd party apps for almost everything.

Anyway that sounds like there is something screwy with your phone, as entering safe mode should not do that. What were the problems you were having before? Wondering whether this might be related (though it may be impossible to say).

 

Yup. Have seen that. Last time I went to save mode it idn't just change the settings fo every single app during the safe mode session it stored them so when I cam out I had to reset them again for all apps.

Luckilly I don't have tons of them and Android notifies you of permission requirements that may be missing on launch as opposed to apple that people have found out just fall over due to lack of permissions for migrated apps or those theat have lost permissions since install.

 

It's unfortunate that Android also bugs you about permissions that aren't needed at all. For example every time I make or receive a call I get a message from the phone app to tell me to grant Google Play Services permissions it "needs". Of course it doesn't need them at all - calls work just fine - it's just Google won't accept that you might deny them access to potentially intrusive permissions that they would like...

 

You can also tick Never ask again, or similar. This would also only happen if you had a 3rd party contacts or dialer app installed. It is probable that this is the source of your issues, You should definitely go to apps, look at Contacts and Dialer. Remove the ones that can be removed. Reboot to be sure.

 

Nope, the phone will not allow me to suppress this notification (other notifications, yes, not this one). I don't have a third party dialer, and it started at a time when I didn't have a third party Contacts app either. This is entirely Google: Google's Phone app, Google Play Services wanting me to give it permissions, a Pixel phone. I suspect I'm unusual in that I own a Pixel but don't use Assistant, so disallow Play Services permissions that others would grant it. It may also be that only Google's phone app interacts this way with Google Play Services. At least it's easier to ignore than when it first started, when it would beep during calls, but it does add to my impression of Google as a dishonest and self-serving corporation (though to be fair all corporations are self-serving and that usually leads them to dishonesty of some degree or other).