Google play services SMS and CALL LOGS permission

Question

We had an application on google play that was having read/receive SMS permissions defined and it was working fine , later on google made restriction to applications that they cannot use SMS and call log permissions until and unless they are their core functionalities. As per policy we remove both read and receive permissions from our application manifest as well as from code base.And tried to upload a compliant version on google play but it is still showing a form thinking that we are still using those permissions in our application. There is no way on google play to tell that we are not using these permissions and don't show this form.The form pic is below please suggest if anyone faced any issue like this . Thanks guys.

Answer 1

There must be some previous apk in some release channels, which had the permissions. Do the following:

1. Go to Artifact Library under Release Management on the sidebar of your app dashboard.
2. Check if there are any previous apks under Active artifacts.
3. If you find any previous apk, that is the one causing the "Previously declared permissions" on your release page. Remove this, and you are all good!