[Bug]: Always returns PermissionStatus.permanentlyDenied when my mic settings for the app

[RowinaSeidler]

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• iOS
• Windows

Steps to reproduce

1. My app asks for permission to use the mic on my iPhone
2. I press accept
3. the device is listening and the games are playing correctly based on listening to the pitch.
4. however, the mic status is still permanently denied

this code in my info.plist is fine:
NSrophoneUsageDescription
Please allow the app access to your mic so it can hear your piano.

Expected results

I expect the code below to produce "MICROPHONE STATUS: PermissionStatus.granted"

final micStatus = await Permission.microphone.request(); // Check the current status of the microphone permission
print("MICROPHONE STATUS: $micStatus");

Actual results

but instead it produces "MICROPHONE STATUS: PermissionStatus.permanentlyDenied"

Code sample

Code sample

final micStatus = await Permission.microphone.request(); // Check the current status of the microphone permission
    print("MICROPHONE STATUS: $micStatus");

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Version

11.4.0

Flutter Doctor output

Doctor output

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[ervindobri]

Same output with Notification permission. Weird behaviour

[tr7077]

i have a similar issue with camera permission. if i manually set the permission from settings to 'Ask every time', the status is set to permanentlyDenied instead of isDenied, so the user will always be redirected to settings instead of getting the popup dialog. Now if the user selects 'Ask every time' from the popup dialog, then it behaves as expected. I did a test and got a super weird behavior: I opened my app fresh-first-time and selected 'Ask every time' from the popup dialog. then I closed the app, manually went on settings, the permission was at 'ask every time' set by the permission_handler when i selected it from inside my app, and i manually switched it to 'dont allow', and without leaving settings or opening my app, i switched it a second later again to where it was (ask every time) , then i opened my app and the status permission i got was permanentlyDenied and it redirected me to settings instead of opening the popup dialog. I did an other test as well: by default as you know, if you try to request for permission while in app and while status == permanentlyDenied, you get no popup dialog and the only option is to use openAppSettings() to redirect the user into settings and manually change the permission. So i did this: I manually opened settings set it to 'ask every time', then opened my app, of i got true on status == permanentlyDenied so my code redirected me to settings again, i changed nothing there as it was at 'ask every time', went back in the app altered my code to try to request permission even when status == permanentlyDenied f-reload the app and guess what, i got the popup dialog even when status == permanentlyDenied which does not make sense, i should have gotten nothing or an error, so that mean that the permission handler does internally see that the permission is really at 'ask every time', but it does not update its status variable correctly. Forgot to mention if i manually set from the settings the 'deny', i still get a popup dialog in my app, which is like the status for 'deny' and the status for 'ask every time' are swapped in the handler if define permission manually from settings

[TimHoogstrate]

@RowinaSeidler, I cannot reproduce it. Is it still an issue?

Kind regards

[RowinaSeidler]

Yes it is. I spent two days trying to figure ways around it and I could not. Everything I did and it always produced the output permanentlydenied, when I could see from my debug statements that the app was working perfectly well and listening through the mic.

[ervindobri]

@RowinaSeidler
Have you added this iOS config in the Podfile?
Due to my own fault, I somehow skipped this, but after adding it the notification permission worked correctly.

post_install do |installer|
  installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
    flutter_additional_ios_build_settings(target)

    target.build_configurations.each do |config|
      config.build_settings['GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS'] ||= [
        '$(inherited)',


        ## dart: PermissionGroup.microphone
        'PERMISSION_MICROPHONE=1'
      ]

    end
  end
end

[github-actions]

Without additional information, we are unfortunately not able to resolve this issue. Therefore, we reluctantly closed this issue for now. If you run into this issue later, feel free to file a new issue with a reference to this issue. Add a description of detailed steps to reproduce, expected and current behaviour, logs and the output of 'flutter doctor -v'. Thanks for your contribution.

[itMcdull]

Same problem
'PERMISSION_MICROPHONE=1'
<key>NSMicrophoneUsageDescription</key>

`[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.32.8, on macOS 15.2 24C101 darwin-x64, locale zh-Hans-CN) [✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 35.0.0) [✓] Xcode - develop for iOS and macOS (Xcode 16.2) [✓] Chrome - develop for the web [✓] Android Studio (version 2024.1.2) [✓] VS Code (version 1.102.3)` permission_handler: ^12.0.1