How to remove capacitor unnecessary permissions

Capacitor
#1

hi everyone,
When I uploaded my app bundle to Goolgle Play Console, Google asked me to remove location api access from my app since my app’s targeting children. However, I didn’t use any location plugins and my app has no location related feature. Why ionic5+angular+capacitor app by default request location access?
How to remove it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My issue is the same as this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62236440/ionic-capacitor-remove-the-unnecessary-permissions-in-ios-android
But removing the permissions from AndroidManifest.xml doesn’t solve my problem when publishing the app.

update: I’ve filed a bug report https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/issues/3793

#2

@rapropos Hi, Robert, could you please help me? Many many thx.

#3

Update: The issue I raised was closed because it’s addressed in capacitor v3. v3 is beta-6 now. I hope it will be released soon. Till then, I won’t be able to further update my app. Google release the update I made last time which was a surprise but I’m afraid they will review it manually and take my app down from the Google Play Store because there is a warning for that release saying info was incomplete.

The root cause of the issue was capacitor had some core plugins(geolocation was one of them) built in. If anyone knows a workaround. It’d be much appreciated.

#4

This will definitely be fixed in v3. Can’t give you a solid ETA but it’s progressing quickly. Sorry for the trouble in the meantime!

#5

Hi Max. No worries. And that’s understandable. That’s how software matures. Glad that it’s been addressed and it’ll be fixed in v3. Many thanks for your replies. Have a great day! Stay safe and healthy!