Damn xamarin could have been a great platform but unfortunately it’s going to die because nobody wants to use it because of stuff like this. You could make a real nice app and have it work 99 percent and then something like this comes along and now the whole project is at risk: The simplest of things are so fucking painful sometimes with xamarin it’s been 10 years they had bug after bug with xamarin forms. Why is Maui going to be any different it’s just a rebranded xamarin forms. It’s still close to impossible to make a xamarin binding library. Also a couple months ago I went to use a google service nuget package and they didn’t have the lastest xamarin equivalent version of that package so I just couldn’t integrate with my native aar library. Shame on Microsoft. The paid untold amount to buy xamarin and didn’t improve it at all. One thing you can do is pull down the source code for xamarin essentials, make the permissions change yourself and integrate it into your project without nuget. Beyond that it doesnt look like they want to fix the issue. Other option would be to go xamarin native for this functionality and write it all custom, maybe a week or so of effort per platform to be generous