How can you say “outside of Play Protect” when it comes enabled by default and h...

gumby271 · 2026-03-20T10:40:34 1774003234

Really? I turned Play Protect off and have never been prompted to turn it back on, what phone do you have that does that?

Lammy · 2026-03-20T16:23:00 1774023780

It's this screen: https://support.google.com/googleplay/thread/230937718/annoy... (not several times per hour like this post says, but same UI)

Pretty sure this is a Play Services thing, so I don't know that the phone model really matters. But regardless this is on a few different devices: my primary REDMAGIC 9S Pro (Android 15), Surface Duo 2 (Android 12), and my YONGNUO YN455 (Android 10).