Details about Google's next version of the Android operating system - Android 'Q' - are already starting to come out

Android Q will make it easier to see which apps have permission to access personal data such as your contacts and location.

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You'll also finally be able to customize when an app uses your location by choosing between settings: all the time, only when you're using the app, or never. It's a feature that iOS has had for some time.

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Apps will also ask your location preferences when you first open them, so you don't have to go into the Settings menus.

Android Q will also show you a small notification in the Android notifications bar when an app or multiple apps are using your location or other things like your microphone or camera.

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Tapping that little icon will show you exactly which apps are using your location information or things like cameras and microphones at that moment.

Android Q will also have a section with easy-to-read summaries of which apps are using which permissions.

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Android Q will also finally come with a dark mode that'll work with the entire Android operating system.

Dark mode in Android can't come soon enough.

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You can check out XDA-Developers' video with more detail about Android Q here.