Google play services SMS and CALL LOGS permission issue

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 the

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!