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Add accessibility keywords to anti-uninstall

Open johvikas opened this issue 9 months ago • 5 comments

The security and privacy page occasionally suggests removing unnecessary accessibility services. So with one click, I could disable "General Features" and anti-uninstall is useless. Since blocking the suggestion itself probably isn't possible, maybe you could add a way to block the whole security page, just like the app blocks uninstalling and accessibility services? It's a major settings page, so if you decide to implement this as a feature, it needs to be another button in the anti-uninstall setup and should only be used by choice as a last resort.

johvikas avatar Mar 07 '25 22:03 johvikas

Nevermind, I just realized that the anti-uninstall feature just looks for strings in settings... If you added the accessibility service names like General Features to the list of tags, it should solve the issue. No extra setting in the setup needed if that's the case

johvikas avatar Mar 07 '25 22:03 johvikas

that would work as well but prevent users from accessing the accessibility settings entirely and wouldn't allow them to change accessibility settings for other apps as well.

I read/feel(i forgot) somewhere that setting the isAccessibilityTool to true in metadata should remove those security alerts, haven't tried it tho. I'll try it out soon.

nethical6 avatar Mar 07 '25 22:03 nethical6

I added this flag and tried it out. The warnings are gone! The app is now impossible to disable :)

johvikas avatar Mar 08 '25 19:03 johvikas

great! soon, I'll add it in the repo aswell.

nethical6 avatar Mar 08 '25 19:03 nethical6

I just discovered this also and it does defeat the anti uninstall.

kk6mrp avatar Oct 01 '25 05:10 kk6mrp