Yes repeatedly on two phones Samsung A51 and backup Samsung A12.
The A51 is my main phone and has a sim card, the A12 has no sim and I use that when I go out for my daily exercise (GPS and fitness App).
Generally I only connect via WiFi at home and rarely on the A51, when I'm out I generally don't use the phone for browsing, calls and texts only.
Both of these phones are on Android 11, the strange thing is this seems only to be on the Samsung A51 phone (not the Samsung A12). I also had it on my Nexus 6P primary phone before I replaced it with the A51.
I can't understand why there would be a difference in the A51 and A12, Samsung general settings.
I think you can understand why users would blame Avast Mobile Security as there doesn't seem to be any clear explanation on why it might happen and how to clearly resolve it.
All this back and forth only to find it is still a big fat Red Circle, trying the options you mentioned and have even just done a system restart!
A couple of back and forth actions, so much so that I really don't know how, but it is now enabled
Hi,
Each vendor decides what type of battery saving techniques to apply to its device, and they can even differ based on the model. You sometimes need to go through a few optimization apps to resolve the issue. The battery-saving settings you apply can sometimes be overwritten after a firmware, App or OS update.
There doesn't seem to be any consistency (but the instructions on how to fix given in the web shield is off, isn't at all clear) between my two phones.
Samsung A51, with sim card on board always has a Red circle (with fig 1) over the avast screen icon, even though the Web Shield is supposedly on, on the checks I have done.
Samsung A12, no sim card, same settings (as far as I can tell (having taken time to try and get them that way), not that installation of Avast Mobile Security hasn't got that notification.
Before replying here I ran a couple of tests on the A12 (the Realtime Protection settings are the same as the A51), connecting to several sites via WiFi and went back to check the My Statistics, and 0 Zero web sites scanned.
Yet the My Statistics on the A51 has 5 sites scanned, but this mobile is the one that has a virtual permanent notification on the application icon. That often tells me the Web Shield is disabled. I didn't see anywhere to zero these stats so I could run tests.
I would hazard a guess probably incorrect (as there is nothing to indicate this) is that the WiFi connections going through my modem/router are being scanned anyway ?
Essentially both connect via WiFi (on my desktops modem/router) as I rarely use my sim card (data allowance) to connect to the internet