Your app uses the “prefs:root=” non-public URL scheme, which is a private entity. 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
To resolve this issue, please revise your app to provide the associated functionality using public APIs or remove the functionality using the “prefs:root” or “App-Prefs:root” URL scheme.
Create a new Ionic project with ionic start and see if this is present there as well.
If it is not, you know that somehow you or one of the plugins you use added this. You can try to find out which one, or just remove it and see if everything still works.
I would search the plugins folder for the string “prefs” as a simple start to trying to find out if this is added by a plugin. And of course do what I wrote above as well.
Hello ,
My app has been rejected today because i am using the background location plugin ,
the rejection cause from apple is :
Apple Rejection Notice:
Your app uses the “prefs:root=” non-public URL scheme, which is a private entity. 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.
Do you have any updated of background geolocation plugin or a solution to fix it ?
Thank you in advance for your help