Today, I submitted an Ionic 4 app to Apple. It has been accepted, but I received this warning. I’m wondering seriously how we will be able to build and submit Ionic apps to Apple from December 2020… ITMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage - Apple will stop accepting submissions of apps that use UIWebV…

Hi, As mentioned here https://ionicframework.com/blog/understanding-itms-90809-uiwebview-api-deprecation , I have updated cordova-ios to 5.1.1 latest version and updated all my Cordova plugins. Still, I got the same warning message from the Apple side. Do you have any idea or I have missed anything…

So then a Plugin must cause the Issue. I don’t know which one. Try open your Project in xCode and search for UiWebView Code References.

Yes, but it shows more than 135 references of UIWebview in Xcode. Even the application has default plugins. [Screenshot 2020-03-31 at 1.36.26 PM]

So let me explain. Apple will check if the UiWebView is used. So if it occurs in Comments: No Problem. Also Cordova did not complete remove the UiWebView in 5.1.1 (will in 6.0.0), but they added a compile time decision to disable the UiWEbView. This is handled via the WK_WEB_VIEW_ONLY Tag in xCode…

Just additional information. You can have the reference to UIWebView inside of a binary file. So, you can run the following command on your project to found it and after that remove the plugin or update it. grep -r "UIWebView" platform/ios Source: https://cordova.apache.org/howto/2020/03/18/wkwebv…

I execute that command and found that ‘cordova-admob-sdk/GoogleMobileAds.framework/GoogleMobileAds matches’, please let me know what should i do now? cordova-ios version is 6.0.0 and other plugins I am mentioning below cordova-admob-sdk 0.24.1 “AdMob SDK” cordova-plugin-admob-free 0.27.0 “Cordova…

Apple will stop accept submission of apps that use UIWebView APIs starting from Dec 2020

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EinfachHans February 27, 2020, 5:35pm 2

Did you read this? https://ionicframework.com/blog/understanding-itms-90809-uiwebview-api-deprecation/ (First Google Solution by the way )
I think it explains the situation very well

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