One of the most annoying and common problems suffered by Android users who are in a version of Android Marshmallow, is surely known as screen overlay issue, an annoying and sticky problem that leads more than one so much that it has been thought to throw your Android out the window on more than one occasion.
Before deciding on the free launch of Android, we only ask that you give us a couple of minutes to read this article in which in addition to help you fix these screen overlay problems your Android suffers from and that they are ending your patience, we are going to explain to you above and in a very simple and colloquial way, the reason for those headaches that your Android is causing you.
But what is this screen overlay problem?
The problems of the Android screen overlay, so that you better understand what we are talking about, it is a permission that gives the concession to the applications installed on our Android to be able to be shown above any application at any time that it needs.
How will you understand, this is a permission of the most dangerous that can be in our Android since if a malicious application takes control of this screen overlay permission or permission to show itself on top of other applications, it can be hidden above the screen of our Android, like an invisible curtain, for example above from the keyboard or from the web browser itself to steal the data that we enter on the screen of our Android.
Data such as our access passwords to the accounts of our main social networks, WhatsApp or Telegram, email accounts and even and in the worst case, the accounts and passwords we use to access our bank accounts.
The reason for the screen overlay problem in Android Marshmallow
So that the end user of Android, that is yourself, is able to take control of the permissions that each of the applications installed on Android can access, Google developers came up with the excellent idea of leaving the final decision to the Android user himself, that is, yourself again.
It is for this same reason that from Android Marshmallow onwards, every time you download and install a new application for Android that requires special permissions such as access to internal storage, access to the network, access to modify the system or the permission we are dealing here with show yourself above other appsNow as of Android 6.0, we are allowed to grant or not the aforementioned permission application by application and in a totally individual way to all the applications that we have installed on our Android.
The bad thing comes when one of those applications installed and that makes use of the screen overlay permission or permission to be able to show itself above all the applications of our Android conflicts and does not allow us to grant essential permissions to enjoy the other applications that we install on our Android.
Then We will be shown a notification like this that I leave just above these lines, a notification in which we are asked to go to the Android settings To solve the problem, which when we click on the aforementioned option to go to settings, we are taken to the Settings / applications section where most users have no idea what to do or which application to deactivate or even delete.
How to disable the screen overlay to any application that is using it
The first thing you have to think about isSince when are you having that terrible screen overlay problem on your Android? Once you have located the time that you have more or less been suffering from that problem or headache with your Android, the most sensible thing is to think about which applications you installed on your Android before suffering with the aforementioned and exasperating problem of overlapping screen.
Once the application or applications that may be causing this conflict have been located on your Android, we will have to go to Settings / Applications and once inside Applications, click on the top right of your Android screen, on the three dots icon or gear wheel icon to access the sub-menus or sub-sections of the applications section.
Once this little window or complete new window has been displayed depending on the make and model of your Android, we will have to look for the option that can be presented to us under different names, the most common of all of them is that of Write about other apps, although it can also be shown as Permission to show on top of other apps and other names more or less similar to this.
We will only have to click on that option and from in there locate the application that is causing us this conflict which leads us to suffer from this problem of screen overlay on Android and that does not allow us to do anything at all.
This as a general rule we have to think that it is giving it to us since we install such an application, do a little memory and then you can locate the conflicting application and if it is not necessary to uninstall it and if it is an app that is necessary and vital for the good operation of your Android, all you have to do is remove the screen overlay permission and you're done.
Applications that use the screen overlay permission and that may be the ones that are giving you the problem on your Android
Any application that uses permission to show itself on top of other applications may be the one that is giving you these headaches, although it is rare that applications such as Google Messenger Translator on Facebook or similar applications are the consequences of this screen overlay problem.
As a general rule, applications such as Clean Master, applications that promise to optimize your Android are the cause of this happening to you on Android, Antivirus apps, optimization apps, cleaning apps, or applications as downloaded and used as ES File Explorer They may be the cause of this terrible problem that is killing you.
- Clean Master
- Du Speed Boster
- ES File Explorer
- Assistive Touch o in general any button or sidebar application that can be shown from any screen or application that we are running on our Android
Here is a video that I created some time ago for Androidsis in which I deal with the problem in question, I explain it to you above and I show you with some other practical example, how to solve it on Android.
A rather annoying little problem, and now much better explained and clear. And the best, the solution !!
How are you? Good day!
About 20 days ago the long-awaited Marshmallow update came to my Galaxy J7. Who would have thought the viacrusis of problems with accesses and permits that would arise? (Especially the damn "Screen Overlay") I've already done everything there is and for having explained and said in hundreds of comments and tutorials to eliminate the screen overlay problem and my J7 remains the same. ? I hate Android Marshmallow, I miss the days when Lollipop made my phone wonder. ??
If you are eager to upgrade your Android from Lollipop to Marshmallow like I was. AVOID DOING IT you will cry blood like me. ?
Hello! I have done everything and I have not managed to remove the screen overlay, I do not have those cleaning or optimization applications and the problem still persists. I read your directions over and over again and try to do them on my phone and nothing. I have a Galaxy S6. Someone help me!! I'm desperate!
Hi, the buttons on my phone back, home, etc., stopped working, and I had to install the virtual buttons application "Simple Control" to continue using the phone.
The problem is that every time I install an app it gives me "screen overlay" and I have to be removing them, giving permissions, and restarting the terminal continuously since by giving the permissions I cannot go back to have simple control without permissions.
Do you know any way to fix it without changing phone?
Thank you.
Antonio.