Is there a way to set the icon badge to an exclamation mark?
Messages uses this feature if a message could not be send, but I'm not able to find something about this.
At the moment, you cannot set the app's icon badge text to anything other than a number. What you have seen in the messages app is only one of the "privileges" of the apps built by Apple, to give their users a better experience. But for matters of security, Apple does not allow developers to do that, because who knows in what way a dev will program his app to start spamming with unwanted messages in the badges of the app.
Instead of that, you can just put a normal badge number and send a local notification with the desired text to catch the user's attention.
Hope it helps!
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Since IOS 13 came to live old 3 party APIs stopped working, In my app i needed to fix few because of that so i needed to fit it to IOS 13.
Since then Apple keeps rejecting my app because of Bluetooth user notification is not correct.
I just don't know what to write there, It is so annoying. I have to add it because of AdMobs and there is nowhere to say what to write over there.
I don't user BT in my app, it is just the AdMobs beacons that needs it probably.
I've tried:
and
And i will probably will have the same issue with the calendar message also.
When i try to remove it they demand it and then not approving it.... I understand maybe the first one but what wrong with the the second one? why is that no clear enough for them?
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see apple docs below: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/ios/app-architecture/requesting-permission/
Explain why your app needs the information. Provide custom text (known
as a purpose string or usage description string) for display in the
system's permission request alert, and include an example. Keep the
text short and specific, use sentence case, and be polite so people
don't feel pressured. There’s no need to include your app name—the
system already identifies your app. For developer guidance, see
Protecting the User's Privacy.
you're not explaining exactly why you need access to bluetooth. you must be specific. saying, "XYZ app needs access to bluetooth to interact with beacons to serve you location based advertisements"
something like that should do. no cutting corners, no trying to put it off on Google, just say it like it is and you'll likely pass through app approval without a problem.
I have an app with a tableView which have the entries with names whatsapp, messenger, slack etc. Now take Whatsapp for example when you tap on it it'll open whatspp via deep linking.I want to show notifications sum, which user has received on his whatsapp, onto my app. After searching around I came to knew that this is not possible to get push notifications of one app to another it's a server to server thing and many other explanations.But my question is if notifications have been received on whatsapp can I get the badge number and sum it and show it in my app? This screenshot will show more:
So the 12 is coming from whatsapp as a sum of total unread messages you can say. So how to achieve that?
UPDATEI found these links which says that it might be possible.How to catch all push notifications from other apps on iOS using private frameworks?How can I receive push notifications of an other app?
No it is not possible. Because Whatsapp is another app. So there is no linking between them. The apple security your app can not gets any other app information.
In latest iOS, they've loosened that up a bit. For example, the iOS programming guide now has a section on passing data between apps by having one app claim a certain URL prefix, and then having other apps reference that URL. So, perhaps you set your event app to answer "event://" URLs the same way that a web server answers for "http://" URLs.
see this document:enter link description here
I had made a custom sticker keyboard. Basically users touches one of the gif images that I have placed on the keyboard, i do a a copy action on that image and then the user pastes it to iMessages. For this to work i need to have user do "Allow Full Access". Without it the copy action doesn't work. Now, my app got rejected with this message
From Apple
25.5 - Keyboard extensions must remain functional with no network access or they will be rejected
25.5 Details We noticed that your keyboard extension does not function when the “Full Access” setting is toggled off.
Is there anything i need to set in my info.plist file? Did the reviewer didn't understand how my app works i.e. need to do rejection appeal or do I need to do something else? Trust me i googled but didn't find much on this topic
Here's the answer to my question that eventually led to my app approval.
It doesn't matter if your app is custom sticker keyboard only. It "must" have "both" alphabet and numeric keyboards. If it doesn't then it will be rejected.
From Apple Review Guidelines
4.4.1 Keyboard extensions have some additional rules.
They must:
Provide keyboard input functionality (e.g. typed characters);
Provide
a method for progressing to the next keyboard;
Remain functional
without full network access;
Provide Number and Decimal keyboard
types as described in the App Extension Programming Guide;
I am working on an app that can automatically send a message to some specific ones (either emails or SMS) under some dangerous circumstances.
When someone is in danger, he or she has no time to press the send button. Is it possible for the user to approve sending messages in the app in advance, so the app can automatically send emails or SMS to others without telling the user?
I searched in StackOverflow, but found no similar answers.
This is just for a demo. It does not need to be approved by Apple.
Thanks in advance!
Take a look at the ChatKit framework.
It uses iOS private APIs to do what you want to achieve. Don't try to submit it to Apple though.
With this framework, you can programmatically compose and send text messages through iMessage/SMS.
I have a couple apps on the Apple App Store and would like some way to send announcements to users whenever I want. Basically, I want to remotely change the text of an IUAlertview and only trigger it to appear if I want it to (upon app opening and only if I updated the message).
So far I have no problem making the IUAlertview appear on when the app opens, and I can easily program an NSUserDefault flag to only make the IUAlertview appear under certain circumstances, but really have no idea how to dynamically change the UIAlertview text without resubmitting my app to Apple continuously.
Can someone please explain how this is done? Thanks!
One way to do this is to have your app periodically (or upon each launch) check a file on a website that you control and if there is changed text (or a version number, or newer date than the last time an alert was displayed) there, then display that changed text in your UIAlertView.