Bug 497676

Summary:	No notification contents: "Sensitive notification content hidden"
Product:	[Applications] kdeconnect	Reporter:	Leo Gaspard <kde>
Component:	android-application	Assignee:	Albert Vaca Cintora <albertvaka>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	andrew.g.r.holmes, clay, kdebugs, simon, smowtenshi
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Android
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Leo Gaspard 2024-12-19 11:29:51 UTC

When connected to an Android 15 phone (GrapheneOS variant) running KDE connect 1.32.5, KDE connect often replaces notification contents as "Sensitive notification content hidden"

If I understand correctly this message https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/17299-one-time-sms-codes-hidden-as-sensitive-notification-content , this is due to KDE connect not requesting the `RECEIVE_SENSITIVE_NOTIFICATIONS` permission. I checked in "all permissions" and it seems to not be requested.

The link also suggests there might be limitations on Android's side to actually accept the permission. But I'm not sure it's correct, and if KDE connect doesn't request it, even Android forks would be unable to grant it.

Can KDE connect request this permission, and once done we can see whether it's worth suggesting Android forks start adding a toggle for this permission? Hopefully KDE connect simply requesting the permission would be enough to solve this issue.

Anyway, thank you for KDE connect, I've only been using it for a short while, but it seems great!

Comment 1 Clay Weber 2024-12-20 12:57:46 UTC

I see the same on my stock Pixel 7 Android 15.

Comment 2 Simon Redman 2025-01-19 13:27:36 UTC

Taking the RECEIVE_SENSITIVE_NOTIFICATIONS permission requires the app to be installed in the system partition, but you can add it yourself at runtime using the steps in the wiki: https://userbase.kde.org/KDEConnect#Sensitive_Notification_Content_(Android_15+)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 495146 ***