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  • Google camera prompts to update when opening - while having no network access

How is this possible if I revoked network access? Is it communicating via Google Play Services? I'm not really worried, just genuinely curious.

    ruub From my understanding, google apps send telemetry/communicate through play services or service framework, but I could be wrong. Also worth checking (Settings>Apps>Special app access>Wi-Fi control) to be sure it is disabled for Google Camera, Google Services Framework and whatever else could be there.

    ruub Is it simply a prompt to update, or is it actually able to update? I don't recall ever seeing such a prompt, so I can't comment too much but I would think that even if it were blocked from the network it would still be able to prompt the user to update software (it just shouldn't be able to follow through with it).

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