Just found out from the changelog of KDE Connect Android app 1.32.2 (updated today on my phone):
“(!) Temporarily removed external storage access because Google was rejecting the app updates otherwise” …wtf?
So if you haven’t updated your phone yet, please don’t update Kde Connect until this is fixed
Or get it from F-droid.
Correct, you can get a working version from f-droid. But now everyone who have installed it from the Play Store is either stuck with the broken version or need to switch to f-droid version. Releasing the 1.32.2 to play store was an extremely stupid decision IMHO