diff --git a/native/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml b/native/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
--- a/native/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/native/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@
   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"
                      android:maxSdkVersion="32" />
 
+  <!--
+       `permission.AD_ID` is requested by play-services-measurement:21.1.0
+       for accessing advertising ID. We don't access this ID so it's
+       safe for us to remove as described in the Android docs:
+       https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/ads/identifier/AdvertisingIdClient.Info#getId()
+  -->
+  <uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID" tools:node="remove"/>
+
   <application
     android:name=".MainApplication"
     android:allowBackup="false"