如何根据有关权限的新Android Store政策处理拒绝？

Question

While I am updating an app on Play store. I am getting following error according to the new policy of Google:

I have also checked all the options that are available, but again and again, Google rejects my application.

I am new to Android.

Issue: Violation of Permissions policy

After reviewing your app, we found that it doesn't qualify to use the requested permissions for the following reason(s):

Based on our review, we found your app's expressed user experience did not match your declared core functionality {SMS-based financial transactions (eg, 5 digit messages), and related activity including OTP account verification for financial transactions and fraud detection}. Please remove these permissions from your app.

This is my manifest containing permissions I have declared

Answer 1

SMS permission is no more allowed to read OTP as android is going to give this feature to users out of the box. You have to register as a messaging app to get SMS and CALL_LOG permissions.

Answer 2

So recently, Google changed its policies, read it at XDA

Same thing happened with my app, It got removed from play store, for using SMS features.

You need to remove those permissions from Android Manifest and if you need to send a message to someone, you need to use Intents to form a message and fill out the messaging app and user has to manually send the message.

Or if you are trying to access SMS permission for automatic OTP, there are other ways to do it.

As it turns out, you need to fill a form. Read this article from Google and refer to this answer on StackOverFlow

Answer 3

Do not update your minSdkVersion in this release. You need to rollout removal of permissions for all of your users.

Answer 4

Try deactivating previous versions of your apk on play console. If you updated minSdkVersion of your app and did not deactivate older apks, older devices are still served the apk with permissions.

This worked for me!