Reading/Extracting OTP Automatically from SMS - Android - Auth

[Bilal-Abdeen]

I am really confused. I highly appreciate your help. I thought that Android devices can extract OTP (One-Time-Passcode) from SMS verification messages. This stopped happening for my app!? By the way, the manual process (user enters the OTP value) works perfectly OK.

I tried it on several Android devices, e.g.:

1. Samsung S10+ (SM-G975F - Android 12 - Google Play system update: 1 Jan 2023)
2. Samsung S22 Ultra (SM-S908E - Android 13 - Google Play system update: 1 Nov 2022)

Am I missing a configuration somewhere, e.g.:

1. AndroidManifest.xml
2. Google Cloud API
3. ????

Sign-Up Screen:

import auth from "@react-native-firebase/auth";

useEffect(() => {
   const unSubscribeOnAuthStateChanged = auth().onAuthStateChanged( async (user) => {
       if (user) {
         // .... 
       }
   }; 
   return () => {
       unSubscribeOnAuthStateChanged();
   }
}, []);

// Login Code - executed when the user submits the phone number: 
auth().signInWithPhoneNumber(phoneNoFormatted)
   .then( (confirmResult) => {
	dispatch({ type: "phoneNo_accepted", payload: { confirmResult: confirmResult } });
});

// OTP submission - executed when the user submits the received OTP value: 
state.confirmResult.confirm(state.codeInput);

Versions:
"react": "18.2.0",
"react-native": "0.71.2",
"@react-native-firebase/app": "^17.0.0",
"@react-native-firebase/auth": "^17.0.0",

react-native info:
npm WARN config global --global, --local are deprecated. Use --location=global instead.
info Fetching system and libraries information...
System:
OS: Windows 10 10.0.19042
CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
Memory: 18.59 GB / 31.90 GB
Binaries:
Node: 16.15.1 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
Yarn: 1.22.19 - ~\AppData\Roaming\npm\yarn.CMD
npm: 9.4.1 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
Watchman: 20220614.153706.0 - C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\watchman.EXE
SDKs:
Android SDK: Not Found
Windows SDK:
AllowAllTrustedApps: Disabled
Versions: 10.0.17763.0, 10.0.19041.0
IDEs:
Android Studio: AI-212.5712.43.2112.8512546
Visual Studio: Not Found
Languages:
Java: 11.0.15 - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath\javac.EXE
npmPackages:
@react-native-community/cli: Not Found
react: 18.2.0 => 18.2.0
react-native: 0.71.2 => 0.71.2
react-native-windows: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
react-native: Not Found