Reasons Program License Agreement PLA 3.3.12
We found your app uses the iOS Advertising Identifier but does not include ad functionality. This does not comply with the terms of the iOS Developer Program License Agreement, as required by the App Store Review Guidelines.
Specifically, section 3.3.12 of the iOS Developer Program License Agreement states:
"You and Your Applications (and any third party with whom you have contracted to serve advertising) may use the Advertising Identifier, and any information obtained through the use of the Advertising Identifier, only for the purpose of serving advertising. If a user resets the Advertising Identifier, then You agree not to combine, correlate, link or otherwise associate, either directly or indirectly, the prior Advertising Identifier and any derived information with the reset Advertising Identifier."
Please check your code - including any third-party libraries - to remove any instances of:
class: ASIdentifierManager
selector: advertisingIdentifier
framework: AdSupport.framework
If you are planning to incorporate ads in a future version, please remove the Advertising Identifier from your app until you have included ad functionality.
To help locate the Advertising Identifier, use the “nm” tool. For information on the “nm” tool, open a terminal window and enter, “man nm.”
If you do not have access to the libraries source, you may be able to search the compiled binary using the "strings" or "otool" command line tools. The "strings" tool lists the methods that the library calls, and "otool -ov" will list the Objective-C class structures and their defined methods. These techniques can help you narrow down where the problematic code resides.
I checked who uses IDFA through following command:
grep -r advertisingIdentifier .
I knew that Facebook SDK (3.1.1 version) uses this.
How can I solve this?
The solution for me was that the facebook 3.20 SDK is indeed okay, but I had to remove the FBAudience framework that they include with the FacebookSDK.framework.
Once I removed the FBAudience framework, and ran
otool -L myAppName.app/myAppName
I no longer saw the AdSupport library bundled into my build, printed in the terminal like so:
/System/Library/Frameworks/AdSupport.framework/AdSupport
If you do not find a way to remove the usage of IDFA from the Facebook SDK, then another solution would be to say you're using the IDFA to attribute the installation to a previously served ad (which is actually fairly simple to enable in the Facebook SDK).
This option should be available to you when creating a new build in iTunesConnect if I remember correctly.
This issue has been taken care by Facebook in their latest versions. Update your Facebook sdk to the latest version and this will solve your problem.
Related
Dear Developer,
We identified one or more issues with a recent delivery for your app,
. Please correct the following issues, then upload again.
Missing Purpose String in Info.plist File - Your app's code references
one or more APIs that access sensitive user data. The app's Info.plist
file should contain a NSBluetoothPeripheralUsageDescription key with a
user-facing purpose string explaining clearly and completely why your
app needs the data. Starting Spring 2019, all apps submitted to the
App Store that access user data will be required to include a purpose
string.If you're using external libraries or SDKs, they may reference
APIs that require a purpose string. While your app might not use these
APIs, a purpose string is still required. You can contact the
developer of the library or SDK and request they release a version of
their code that doesn't contain the APIs. Learn more
(https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/core_app/protecting_the_user_s_privacy).
Best regards,
The App Store Team
Actually, I am not trying to use to access bluetooth. But somehow App Store reject my app like this.
If you added CoreBluetooth.framework in linked libraries and frameworks section in Build phases , remove it.
Also, check if any third party libraries that you are using in the project uses bluetooth. Check if any files import CoreBluetooth.framework
Are you using advertising frameworks ?
Ad frameworks sometime use bluetooth information.
Apple rejected our app with this message:
Guideline 2.5.1 - Performance - Software Requirements
Your app uses or references the following non-public APIs:
prefs:root="GraphicsServices.framework"
The use of non-public APIs is not permitted on the App Store because it can lead to a poor user experience should these APIs change.
Continuing to use or conceal non-public APIs in future submissions of this app may result in the termination of your Apple Developer account, as well as removal of all associated apps from the App Store.
Next Steps
If you are using third-party libraries, please update to the most recent version of those libraries. If you do not have access to the libraries' source, you may be able to search the compiled binary using the "strings" or "otool" command line tools. The "strings" tool can output a list of the methods that the library calls and "otool -ov" will output the Objective-C class structures and their defined methods. These tools can help you narrow down where the problematic code resides. You could also use the "nm" tool to verify if any third-party libraries are calling these APIs.
Resources
For information on the "nm" tool, please review the "nm tool" Xcode manual page.
If there are no alternatives for providing the functionality your app requires, you can file an enhancement request.
It's unclear how to fix this.
The issue was generated by https://github.com/erica/uidevice-extension
more specifically: https://github.com/erica/uidevice-extension/blob/master/UIDevice-Capabilities.m
There is even a description in the code, our app was not rejected for more than 1 year now.
/*
THIS CATEGORY IS NOT APP STORE SAFE AT THIS TIME. DO NOT USE IN PRODUCTION CODE.
YOU CAN, HOWEVER, USE THIS TO HELP BUILD YOUR OWN CUSTOM CODE TO PRE_COMPUTE CAPABILITIES.
*/
#define GRAPHICS_SERVICES_PATH "/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GraphicsServices.framework/GraphicsServices"
We'll removed the use of the library.
Guideline 2.5.1 - Performance - Software Requirements
Your app uses or references the following non-public APIs:
PrivateFrameworks/Pegasus.framework (PGHostedWindow)
The use of non-public APIs is not permitted on the App Store because
it can lead to a poor user experience should these APIs change.
Continuing to use or conceal non-public APIs in future submissions of
this app may result in the termination of your Apple Developer
account, as well as removal of all associated apps from the App Store.
Next Steps
If you are using third-party libraries, please update to the most
recent version of those libraries. If you do not have access to the
libraries' source, you may be able to search the compiled binary using
the "strings" or "otool" command line tools. The "strings" tool can
output a list of the methods that the library calls and "otool -ov"
will output the Objective-C class structures and their defined
methods. These tools can help you narrow down where the problematic
code resides. You could also use the "nm" tool to verify if any
third-party libraries are calling these APIs.
Can anyone please tell how I solve this error? I am not using Pegasus framework at all.
And also which apis consider as non-public?
I think you have used the private framework. The file PGHostedWindow is of Pegasus.framework and may be this file has been used in your app.
You can see the following link which show which file are available in Pegasus.framework:-
https://github.com/JaviSoto/iOS10-Runtime-Headers/tree/master/PrivateFrameworks/Pegasus.framework
You can also see the list of Private Framework on GitHub in the following link:-
https://github.com/nst/iOS-Runtime-Headers/tree/master/PrivateFrameworks
The non-public API refers to Apple API methods that are not documented and offered to the programmer.
Apple does not guarantee that this part of the API will work in future upgrades. These API can freely change this part.
During my IOS app validation, warning shows "Improper Advertising Identifier [IDFA] Usage. Your app contains the IDFA API but you have not indicated its usage on the Prepare for Upload". I have updated the admob SDK inside with the latest. Do I have to tick using IDFA during the preparation for upload?
Regards
Hammer
Yes, if you are using the Ad Identifier in your own code or in third party libraries such as mopub, then Apple requires you to fill in and check the appropriate forms on the IDFA questionnaire prior to upload.
Specifically, the section advises app developers that the IDFA is “the only way to offer targeted ads” and offers three use cases which they must also check, if in place:
Serve advertisements within the app
Attribute this app installation to a previously served advertisement
Attribute an action taken within this app to a previously served advertisement
Source
Apple rejected game with below message.
We found your app uses the iOS Advertising Identifier but does not include ad functionality. This does not comply with the terms of the iOS Developer Program License Agreement, as required by the App Store Review Guidelines.
Specifically, section 3.3.12 of the iOS Developer Program License Agreement states:
"You and Your Applications (and any third party with whom you have contracted to serve advertising) may use the Advertising Identifier, and any information obtained through the use of the Advertising Identifier, only for the purpose of serving advertising. If a user resets the Advertising Identifier, then You agree not to combine, correlate, link or otherwise associate, either directly or indirectly, the prior Advertising Identifier and any derived information with the reset Advertising Identifier."
Please check your code - including any third-party libraries - to remove any instances of:
class: ASIdentifierManager
selector: advertisingIdentifier
framework: AdSupport.framework
If you are planning to incorporate ads in a future version, please remove the Advertising Identifier from your app until you have included ad functionality.
To help locate the Advertising Identifier, use the “nm” tool. For information on the “nm” tool, open a terminal window and enter, “man nm.”
If you do not have access to the libraries source, you may be able to search the compiled binary using the "strings" or "otool" command line tools. The "strings" tool lists the methods that the library calls, and "otool -ov" will list the Objective-C class structures and their defined methods. These techniques can help you narrow down where the problematic code resides.
In my system, otool and nm command not found, Is there any other way to find ASIdentifierManager?
Now apple not allow if we link adsupport framework?
Do you have integrate with Facebook or Google Analytics? Those Frameworks use AdSupport.Framework.
For Google Analytics, you need update the framework and add "-force_load\ GoogleAnalyticsServices" in Build Settings > Other linker flags.
For the Facebook SDK, get FBUtility.m from (https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk) and replace the + (NSString *)advertiserID method with the code below:
+ (NSString *)advertiserID {
return #"";
}