Flutter: How to fix ITMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage - Apple will stop accepting submissions of apps that use UIWebView APIs

Question

When submitting my latest build, Apple suddenly returned a message saying that there was an issue, specifically:

ITMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage - Apple

Answer 1

I think it was being used from the firebase_auth plugin. Try to update it to its latest version and then remember run pod update.

Answer 2

Since this has become the "goto answer" on Google for this rejection message, I'll add a React Native fix.

On React Native, considering that you've been a good developer and are not using UIWebView in your own code, use the following command to find out which of your dependencies still does use UIWebView:

grep -r UIWebView node_modules/*

There is a bit more info here.

Answer 3

Even though I'm not using firebase_auth in my app, I was finding references to UIWEBVIEW in Xcode search from FirebaseAuth. It seems that Pods includes this by default. So this worked for me:

1. Open project in Xcode
2. Open the Pods folder and you will probably see a lot of sub-folders (packages)
3. Right-click on the FirebaseAuth folder and select Delete
4. Then select "Remove References" not "Move to Trash"
5. Build the project
6. The UIWEBVIEW references should be gone

Answer 4

I have this with our Cordova app and fixed it by updating a dependency.

Are you by any chance using the dependency or an other dependency is using the dependency "cordova-plugin-inappbrowser".

If so, this should be fixed in 3.1.0. See the release notes https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-inappbrowser/blob/master/RELEASENOTES.md And the PR fixing it https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-inappbrowser/pull/271

Update: it's not fixed yet. See issue on cordova-ios: https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/issues/661 Note the: There is no deadline, I've contacted an Apple developer that has been tweeting about moving to WKWebView to see if he can provide more information, will update if I get a response.

Update: Cordova-ios 5.1.0 seems to fix this. See https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/pull/715

Answer 5

In my case the problem was the version of the Facebook plugin for Flutter that I was using in debug

I had to change the version from:

flutter_facebook_login: ^2.0.1

to:

flutter_facebook_login: ^3.0.0

Also had to change the pod file from:

pod 'FBSDKCoreKit', '~> 4.39.1'
pod 'FBSDKLoginKit', '~> 4.39.1'

to:

pod 'FBSDKCoreKit', '~> 5.5'
pod 'FBSDKLoginKit', '~> 5.5'

Then another problem became with the call of this function

fbLogin.logInWithReadPermissions(['email']);

just replaced with

fbLogin.logIn(['email']);

then rebuild everything, and upload again.