App Store Connect warning: UIWebView API deprecation

Ionic Native
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Hi Team
I create ionic app for ios and submitted on Test Flight to test in devices
But i got following mail and warning from Apple.

App Store Connect

Dear Developer,

We identified one or more issues with a recent delivery for your app, “App Name” 0.0.1 (0.0.8). Your delivery was successful, but you may wish to correct the following issues in your next delivery:

ITMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage - Apple will stop accepting submissions of apps that use UIWebView APIs . See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiwebview for more information.

After you’ve corrected the issues, you can use Xcode or Application Loader to upload a new binary to App Store Connect.

Best regards,

The App Store Team

Does any body knows solution.
Next week plan to go live on Apple.

Thanks

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Same here.
App created with Ionic 4 Angular 7, so it should definitely use WKWebView instead of UIWebView
Part of XCode console output:

** CDVWKWebViewEngine will reload WKWebView if required on resume
** Using Ionic WKWebView

Part of config.xml

<feature name="IonicWebView">
    <param name="ios-package" value="CDVWKWebViewEngine" />
</feature>

When I tried to find UIWebView instances in the code, I found that they are used in at least 4 files generated.
For example:
CDVUserAgentUtil.m
CDVWKWebViewUIDelegate.m
etc…

Ionic version used to build iOS -> 5.2.5
Cordova version -> 9.0.0 (cordova-lib@9.0.1)

Thanks!

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Apple just searches for “UIWebView” text on the app code, and cordova-ios have a lot of references, so you’ll get that warning even if using cordova-plugin-ionic-webview.

It’s soon to know if it will affect apps not using UIWebView or if a cordova-ios update will be needed in the future.

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Did you find solution?

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Then what can be possible solutions.

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I think this is a major concern for ionic, I have checked in xcode and it is referenced a LOT of times, can someone at ionic confirm what the solution is for this I just received this from apple also:

ITMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage - Apple will stop accepting submissions of apps that use UIWebView APIs . See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiwebview for more information.

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can update to Webview plugin will be solution?

https://github.com/ionic-team/cordova-plugin-ionic-webview.

Hi @ChrisGriiffith please help or reply on this.

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You should absolutely do this! But you will still get this warning since UIWebView is refrenced a few times in cordova-ios platform code.

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I’m using wkwebview in an ionic 3 application and have updated the inappbrowser plugin to the latest version which also uses wkwebview but looking through xcode for any references i see 187 results in 25 files, so even if you don’t actively use UIWebview you are still affected

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Yes
And I don’t think Apple will consider this.

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I think someone from Ionic please answer this or provide solution because it may affect apps which are going to live in upcoming days.

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Hi folks,

facing the same issue here since today. When deploying app to Testflight it sends out a warning:

ITMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage - Apple will stop accepting submissions of apps that use UIWebView APIs . See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiwebview for more information.

I checked my start log files and it says:
2019-08-29 15:51:20.059055+0200 xxx App[3408:1391780] Apache Cordova native platform version 5.0.1 is starting.
2019-08-29 15:51:20.059802+0200 xxx App[3408:1391780] Multi-tasking -> Device: YES, App: YES
2019-08-29 15:51:20.070316+0200 xxx App[3408:1391780] CDVWKWebViewEngine: trying to inject XHR polyfill
2019-08-29 15:51:21.823243+0200 xxx App[3408:1391780] CDVWKWebViewEngine will reload WKWebView if required on resume
2019-08-29 15:51:21.823373+0200 xxx App[3408:1391780] Using Ionic WKWebView
2019-08-29 15:51:21.824061+0200 xxx App[3408:1391780] [CDVTimer][console] 0.087976ms
2019-08-29 15:51:21.824234+0200 xxx App[3408:1391780] [CDVTimer][handleopenurl] 0.087976ms
2019-08-29 15:51:21.826442+0200 xxx App[3408:1391780] [CDVTimer][intentandnavigationfilter] 2.179027ms
2019-08-29 15:51:21.826538+0200 xxx App[3408:1391780] [CDVTimer][gesturehandler] 0.059009ms
2019-08-29 15:51:21.828039+0200 xxx App[3408:1391780] [CDVTimer][file] 1.457930ms
2019-08-29 15:51:21.828124+0200 xxx App[3408:1391780] [CDVTimer][inappbrowser] 0.054002ms

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Same problem after building my app ionic 3/cordova.

Any solution Please??

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This is just a warning, not an error.

Apple deprecated the UIWebView on iOS 12 and have been warning people that they need to migrate to WKWebView. This is just a new way of warning so people become aware. I suppose they will eventually set a deadline and you’ll have to update cordova-ios and a few plugins that have UIWebView references or move to Capacitor.

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Yeah! But Im using WKWebView already; this message indicates that im using UIWebView, which I think is not the case (prolly because a detection algo by apple). And in future updates apps might be declined because of that. So this should be taken as a concern

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Agree with you repeated warning leads to App Rejection from Apple.

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If we ignore it and Apple giving warning again and again then it leads to App Rejection from Apple.

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I think this rises in All Hybrid mobile development platforms in last 2-3 days.

Some links
https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic/issues/19229.

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Hi @mhartington
Need your help and support on this.

Thanks

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Ok So I found following solution
From

GitHub

apache/cordova-plugin-inappbrowser

Apache Cordova Plugin inappbrowser. Contribute to apache/cordova-plugin-inappbrowser development by creating an account on GitHub.

iOS supports these additional options:

  • usewkwebview : set to yes to use WKWebView engine for the InappBrowser. Omit or set to no (default) to use UIWebView. Note: Using usewkwebview=yes requires that a WKWebView engine plugin be installed in the Cordova project (e.g. cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine or cordova-plugin-ionic-webview). iOS supports these additional options:

From


WKSuspendInBackground

Default value is true (suspend).

Hope this can help. Till time not uploaded new app with these changes on TestFlight.