# App Store Rejection UIWebView

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/app-store-rejection-uiwebview/201257>\
**Category:** Ionic Angular\
**Created:** [December 14, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/app-store-rejection-uiwebview/201257 "2020-12-14T17:21:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kivancbilen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@kivancbilen](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/kivancbilen)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/app-store-rejection-uiwebview/201257/1 "2020-12-14T17:21:17Z")

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Hello,

I want to upload my app to AppStore, archive is successfully uploaded but then AppStore is rejecting my app due to usage of UIWebView.  
It was on ionic4 and i upgraded to ionic5 to get rid of this error.  
ionic info result is below;  
Ionic:

Ionic CLI : 6.12.2 (/usr/local/lib/node\_modules/@ionic/cli)  
Ionic Framework : @ionic/angular 5.5.2  
@angular-devkit/build-angular : 0.1000.8  
@angular-devkit/schematics : 10.0.8  
@angular/cli : 10.0.8  
@ionic/angular-toolkit : 2.3.3

Cordova:

Cordova CLI : 10.0.0  
Cordova Platforms : ios 6.1.1  
Cordova Plugins : cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard 2.2.0, cordova-plugin-ionic-webview 4.2.1, (and 7 other plugins)

Utility:

cordova-res : not installed  
native-run (update available: 1.3.0) : 1.2.2

System:

ios-deploy : 1.11.3  
ios-sim : 8.0.2  
NodeJS : v14.15.1 (/usr/local/bin/node)  
npm : 6.14.8  
OS : macOS Big Sur  
Xcode : Xcode 12.2 Build version 12B45b

and when i check which frameworks are using UIWebView, they are  
AppAuth  
FBLPromises  
GTMAppAuth  
GTMSessionFetcher  
GoogleUtilities  
nanopb

and my latest podfile is this

source ‘[https://cdn.cocoapods.org/](https://cdn.cocoapods.org/)’

platform :ios, ‘11.0’  
use\_frameworks!  
target ‘Prediction Game’ do  
project ‘Prediction Game.xcodeproj’  
pod ‘GoogleSignIn’, ‘~\> 5.0.2’  
pod ‘GoogleUtilities’, ‘~\> 6.7’  
pod ‘OneSignal’, ‘2.16.1’  
pod ‘Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK’,‘7.64.0’  
end  
post\_install do |installer|  
installer.pods\_project.targets.each do |target|  
target.build\_configurations.each do |config|  
config.build\_settings[‘IPHONEOS\_DEPLOYMENT\_TARGET’] = ‘9.0’  
end  
end  
end

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**Author:** ![jcesarmobile](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/jcesarmobile/32/127095_2.png) [@jcesarmobile](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/jcesarmobile)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/app-store-rejection-uiwebview/201257/2 "2020-12-16T16:21:21Z")

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you’ll have to check which plugins are adding  
AppAuth  
FBLPromises  
GTMAppAuth  
GTMSessionFetcher  
GoogleUtilities  
nanopb

and see if there are newer versions of those plugins that use more up to date versions of those libraries

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**Author:** ![DMoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@DMoney](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/DMoney)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/app-store-rejection-uiwebview/201257/3 "2021-04-15T17:12:05Z")

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Did you ever get this resolved? I’m facing the same issue.

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67097946/removed-uiwebview-from-ionic-project-but-still-getting-rejected-by-the-app-store>