"Read phone and status and identity" with 5.1.0f3

I upgrade to Unity 5.1 and now my app ask for this new permission:

“Read phone and status and identity”

I check in the build settings and I can’t find what cause that. And I’ve check all the release notes for 5.1 and I didn’t see anything about that.

It’s a new permission set by default? Or something else?

+1

Wish it wasn’t there. No idea what’s using it. Maybe something to do with new Unity analytics info they gather (even though I’ve chosen to disable stats from being collected)?

+1 :eyes:

There are several threads about this issue, this is one…

I decided to reimport my projects in Unity 5.0 which does not automatically add the permission. I do not want to release a game for kids with this permission. It was not fixed in 5.1.1 and the latest patch release 5.1.1p1,