WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission always requested

Expo Application Services (EAS)
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In case it helps others, I ended up following the advice from this answer on another forum post.

Essentially, use the app.config.js functionality to add the (as far as I can tell totally undocumented?) AndroidConfig.Permissions.withBlockedPermissions plugin to remove the permission.

import { AndroidConfig } from "@expo/config-plugins";

export default ({ config }) => ({
  ...config,
  plugins: [
    [
      AndroidConfig.Permissions.withBlockedPermissions,
      ["android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"],
    ],
  ],
});
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