Permission must be granted to Google Play Services and Play Store

pizzadequeso

I have the these permissions given to Google Play Services:

Network
Unrestricted battery
(1 and 2 are for notifications to work)
Location
Sensors
(3 and 4 are for Google Maps to work)
Nearby Devices (forgot why i enabled this, maybe i read it here or for Google Maps too).

And I have the these permissions given to Google Play Store:

Network and Notification
(Don't remember why I enabled these during my initial setup and testing).

Is there something I can revoke? interested in hearing your thoughts. Thanks

DeletedUser557

pizzadequeso I only have Network and Sensors enabled, as well as unrestricted battery for Play Services. Haven't noticed any issues with anything really. I could possibly disable Sensors as well, but since it's a nonstandard permission I've left it on. But I think I'll try disabling it and see if it breaks anything.

Eirikr70

I would avoid Google Maps and revoke location, sensors and nearby devices.
Giving Google location privilege is a No-Go for me.

Byku

I give only 1&2 for push notifications to work but am thinking of dropping all permissions an going with Unified Push instead.

MetropleX

Byku UnifiedPush only works for specific supported apps it's not a one size fits all replacement for websockets or FCM.

starglider

You actually don't need location permissions on in GMS for Google Maps. Maps has its own permission request. Although you're correct that GMS needs sensors for the compass functionality to work in Maps. The recommended setup is to keep location off in GMS and use the OS rerouting feature.

I don't see why GMS would need nearby devices; I bet you could kill that.

If you want to use Google Wallet (not for NFC but just to hold things like boarding passes and tickets), GMS needs the Phone permission.

pizzadequeso

starglider
You are right. I followed your instruction and my map app still work.
I granted GMS more permission than I needed because I read this and wanted my location pin to be more accurate. But it made no difference.

Byku

MetropleX That's what keeps me from doing it yet. My main 2 apps that require FCM are Signal and Beeper with others bridged via Beeper. I was thinking of swapping Signal with Molly and Beeper with ElementX + self-hosted Matrix with bridges to other messangers. This would cut Google off from internet and probably save battery too without Play Services making all those connections. For Unified Push provider I would probably go with NextPush since I already run a Nextcloud on a VPS. At least that's the plan.

starglider

Oh, and for Play Store, those are the same permissions I have. You definitely need network so it can download and update apps, and notifications are nice because it'll ping you if an update fails or apps that you have set to manual update have new versions. It'll also send you useless marketing garbage, but thankfully that's all in a separate notification channel that you can disable.

MetropleX

Byku I use Unified push for both Molly and Matrix, if that's your solution then whichever UP distribution solution you go for should suit you down to a tee.