Live Admob Ads have suddenly stopped displaying in my app - ios

In June, Admob adverts worked perfectly and AdMob sent a letter with a verification PIN for me to verify my identity & payment details.
Around the beginning of July, nearly all live ads stopped displaying in my app. I am still making the same number of requests, but impressions are so low I have dropped to £0.00/£0.01 a day. All test ads work correctly.
This issue began around the time I renamed my app (only on the app store display), however; all links to my app in my AdMob account are correct so the name change appears to have made no difference on their front-end UI.
When I debug my app, I get a list of warnings in the output section:
[I-ACS025031] AdMob App ID changed. Original, new: (nil), AppId
My 'GADApplicationIdentifier' value in my info.plist is the same as the 'new' app id.
[I-ACS013003] User property name must start with a letter: _ap
I am not setting any user properties, no idea what this means.
What have I tried?
Setting up new ad units.
Reverting back to an older version of the app.
Contacted AdMob 'support' via a form. They told me my ad serving is being limited. They did not say for how long and it has been around 2/3 weeks (by 'limited', I don't think they meant completely stopped).
Checked for policy violations in my account; nothing is there.
Code I use to display ads:
I have created an 'AdMobDisplayer' class that allows me to set up and display ads; this is called by each view controller. For example, my banner ads code:
View Controller:
let adMobDisplayer = AdMobDisplayer()
#IBOutlet weak var bannerView: GADBannerView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.bannerView = self.adMobDisplayer.setupAdBannerView(self.bannerView, viewController: self, adUnitId: Constants.timerTabBannerAdId)
self.adMobDisplayer.displayBannerAd(self.bannerView)
}
AdMobDisplayer:
func setupAdBannerView(_ bannerView: GADBannerView, viewController: UIViewController, adUnitId: String, bannerViewDelgate: GADBannerViewDelegate? = nil) -> GADBannerView {
if(checkIfAdsAreDisabled()) {
return bannerView
}
/// Creates a new GADBannerView to be displayed in a view controller
bannerView.adUnitID = adUnitId
/// bannerView.adUnitID = Constants.testBannerAdId
bannerView.rootViewController = viewController
if let delegate = bannerViewDelgate {
bannerView.delegate = delegate
}
return bannerView
}
func displayBannerAd(_ bannerView: GADBannerView) {
if(checkIfAdsAreDisabled()) {
return
}
///Creates a request and loads an advert from AdMob
let request = GADRequest()
request.testDevices = [ "My Device Id" ]
bannerView.load(request)
}
This should display a banner ad in the view. It worked when I first added adverts in, it works for test adverts, but intermittently/rarely for live adverts now.
Find the full application on my GitHub: https://github.com/AlexMarchant98/KeGal-Trainer
Thanks in advance for any help!

I recently worked on GADBannerView in my last app and had almost similar issue, in your case you may need to generate Admob ad id, from their website.

So I fixed this ages ago, but, my fix was to add the required 'NSAppTransportSecurity' keys into my info.plist.
https://developers.google.com/admob/ios/app-transport-security

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Let me see if i got your problem correctly, you want to hide your banner as soon as the purchase is made.
First, you need to set the bannerView as a property of your viewController.
Then you have to add this code inside the callback from the purchase success:
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[•••]
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If you are facing issue like "No ad to show" in cases if you are using google banner ads(admob) then that issue solved by making view width 320 fixed.I solved my issue by making ad width 320 and height 50.
Hope this will helpful for others.
Use a test ad unit id, or add a test device
Google's documentation is pretty straight forward so maybe you should take a look into it.
https://developers.google.com/admob/ios/banner
At first glance I have a question:
Are you configuring AdMob in your AppDelegate didFinishLaunching?
func application(_ application: UIApplication,
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// Initialize the Google Mobile Ads SDK.
// Sample AdMob app ID: ca-app-pub-3940256099942544~1458002511
GADMobileAds.configure(withApplicationID: "YOUR_ADMOB_APP_ID")
return true
}
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