After contacting Google Play support they replied and said that if you use analytics we need to choose YES on The AD_ID permission for an analytics use case on the Advertising ID section. You should not remove permission manually or remove analytics sub-modules that contain AD_ID permission since it can break things… So just need … Read more
Case 1: The app doesn’t contain any Ads: You can simply remove/ignore it by adding tools:node=”remove” in the AndroidManifest.xml file. <uses-permission android:name=”com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID” tools:node=”remove”/> Make sure you have xmlns:tools at the top of AndroidManifest.xml file Even if another third-party library asks for this specific permission, the build will be forced not to merge it in your … Read more
Disable advertising id collection According to the Firebase docs you can disable advertising id collection by setting: <meta-data android:name=”google_analytics_adid_collection_enabled” android:value=”false” /> in your AndroidManifest.xml under the <Application> tag. EDIT: It seems like people are having mixed success with this approach. Try adding configurations { all*.exclude group: ‘com.google.firebase’, module: ‘firebase-core’ all*.exclude group: ‘com.google.firebase’, module: ‘firebase-iid’ } … Read more