Xamarin forms OnBackButtonPressed not firing on android since upgrade - xamarin

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I now need it run on devices with Android versions 8.1 to 12 so I upgraded all the NuGet packages, set the Target Framework to 12, updated the Java Version to 17 as required.
(C:\Program Files\Microsoft\jdk-17.0.4.101-hotspot)
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Xamarin Forms 5.0.0.2515 (latest)
All latest required AndroidX packages.
Target Framework Android 12
Minimum Android Version 8.1
Target Android Version 12
All seemed fine but the OnBackButtonPressed event no longer fires on the Android 8.1 device.
It did before the upgrade of all the other components with no code changes by myself.
The OnBackButtonPressed event does fire on an Android 9 and an Android 10 device within the same app (same .apk installed on all three devices).
Does anyone have any idea why this would be or which bit that I updated may have broken it?
This not firing ->>>
protected override bool OnBackButtonPressed()
{
base.OnBackButtonPressed();
myViewModel.DoCancel();
return true;
}

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