Is Loophole safe?

Loophole is a one-tap Quick Settings toggle for Android Developer Options. If you're an Android developer, Developer Options is basically always on. But a lot of banking and fintech apps treat that as a red flag and refuse to open, or silently degrade, while it's enabled -- even though you're not doing anything shady, you're just building. The normal fix is: open Settings, find Developer Options,…

Developer: Shubhang
Category: System
Earliest archived version: 21 Aug 2026
License: MIT (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

21 Aug 2026

1.1.0

Turning Developer Options on now switches USB debugging and wireless debugging off first, so it no longer brings back a debugging session you left enabled. Note that this ends any active adb connection. Long-pressing the Quick Settings tile now opens Loophole instead of the system App Info screen.…

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.shubhang.loophole

Latest APK SHA-2563e879776ea92632a88b89a064e48c4a45cdd03599d3ffe189076c255a0c31e3f

Signing certificate38:46:C2:6B:24:20:8E:88:D9:8E:B4:63:E9:7E:5E:39:79:B3:A3:B4:44:03:11:E0:08:14:CB:0E:64:F4:FF:66

MIN ANDROID24TARGET36ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a · armeabi-v7a · x86 · x86_64

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

1 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.1.021 Aug 202624+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→

05 / Safety & access

Safety verdict

Authentic — file hash matches the source indexNo ads or tracking flagged by the source

IntegritySHA-256 verified vs source

SourceOpen-source · fdroid

Permissions6 declared · 0 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessNo sensitive permissions

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED android.permission.WAKE_LOCK android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS com.shubhang.loophole.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

Tracker status: Not assessed by WIKI for Android.

06 / Sources

Evidence ledger

Each entry is a captured public reference backing this record.

RepositorySource package page↗Source codeSource repository↗