Confused about Play Store Permissions declaration form with cordova SMS plugin

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My Andoird app is only using the SMS plugin to populate the SMS app with the phone # and message text, but isn’t actually sending the SMS text.

When I upload the .apk to the Play Store, it shows that I have the SMS_send permission, which I need, otherwise it doesn’t do anything.

However, Google keeps rejecting my app saying that I’m not using it as core functionality. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do to get around this? Google docs on this subject are infuriatingly cryptic.

Any help here on how to get this working?

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If you only want to open the SMS Dialog/App, you can use the SocialSharing Plugin. It has a Methode shareViaSms:

The Plugin you are currently using is to directly send the SMS (on Android), that’s why it adds this Permission.