What is Scoped Storage in Android 11?
(Android Central)

A controversial change that originally was slated for Android 10 becomes mandatory for all new apps in August 2020 and every app targeting Android 11: Scoped Storage. Here`s what you need to know about it. When Android 10 was still in its early beta days, Google had plans for a big change in the way that apps could access the files and folders in your phone`s external storage (things like photos that you or other apps placed in the /data/media folder, not the SD card present in many Android models). This change was known as Scoped Storage, and its purpose was to kill the abuse of the READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permissions that so many apps and developers like to request. These changes were originally slated to apply to every app on a phone running Android 10 or later, but because of developer backlash Google changed course and only required the use of Scoped Storage for apps that target Android API level 29, which is Android 10. But with Android 11 Scoped Storage is back, and Google is...