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Google-Services on Android 15 _ Enrollment
I think Google is cracking down on any OEMs that have offered workarounds to bypass these manual prompts in the past. Zebra for example had a barcode called "Skip Google Setup Wizard" that would bypass the entire wizard and take you straight to StageNow. That capability has recently been stripped away across their latest A13 and A14 releases due to external pressure from Google. Google apparently wants someone to manually accept the privacy agreements. It doesn't necessarily make sense to me for the dedicated /fully managed use case where the devices are shared. In those situations the end user is not involved in the initial device set up so they will never see these prompts in the first place.
Apple allows you as a company can agree on those terms on behalf of the end user, Google should also allow something like this.
I recently had a use case where certain Google services need to be active for Fully Managed Devices for certain features to work. I really would have liked to have the option to agree to the terms as an admin. Unfortunately, when users enroll themselves, they sometimes deselect important options.
For fully managed devices in particular, I could imagine the DPC Extras as a potential solution.
Completely agree. I do not understand why Google insists that we have end users on shared corporate owned dedicated devices accept privacy policies and be presented with the option to disable certain permissions or behaviors. AE already has split designations of Work Profile vs Device Owner / Work Managed. I don't understand why the consumer protection behaviors always tend to trickle into the Work Managed use case.
