ITMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage - UIWebView APIs

[marbetschar]

Description of the problem:

Affected platform

• Android
• iOS
• electron
• web

OS of the development machine

• Windows
• macOS
• linux

Other information

When the App is archived in Xcode and uploaded to App Store Connect, it does get post-processed by App Store Connect. Once this post-processing is done, I receive an E-Mail with the following complaint:

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.

Capacitor version: 1.1.1

node version: v12.9.1

npm version: 6.10.3

CocoaPods version: 1.7.5

Steps to reproduce

Just create a new app, archive it and upload it to App Store Connect.

[bryplano]

Have you tried with Capacitor 1.2.0? Latest release removes references to UIWebView. PR was already merged (#1925).

[bryplano]

Closing as a dupe of #1912

[marbetschar]

@bryplano confirmed; new version fixes the issue. Thank you very much for the hint!

[rajashekaranugu]

@marbetschar, @bryplano can you please help me with the version number? currently we are using ionicWebView (4.1.1) and inAppBrowser (3.1.0) and receiving same email from apple. pLease suggest

[bryplano]

@rajashekaranugu - those plugins have their own Github repositories. Do a search to see whether or not UIWebView is used in either of those plugins and search for existing issues on the appropriate repos. Those may not even be the plugin(s) at fault in your project.

The Ionic team has a blog post explaining the deprecation and what to do about it.

This is the Capacitor repository and the issue has been fixed here.