NSBluetoothAlwaysUsageDescription required, but bluetooth is not used

Question

In my ios app with new Xcode 11 GM Seed 2 after deploy, apple returned error: ITMS-90683: Missing Purpose String in Info.plist with NSBluetoothAlwaysUsageDe

Answer 1

Swift 5

<key>NSBluetoothAlwaysUsageDescription</key>
<string>App would like to use your bluetooth for communication purposes</string>
<key>NSBluetoothPeripheralUsageDescription</key>
<string>App would like to use your bluetooth for communication purposes</string>

Answer 2

A third party library/framework/pod in your app might be using CoreBluetooth. Just add NSBluetoothAlwaysUsageDescription in your Info.plist, error will be gone.

Answer 3

I've tried Maurice's answer, with and without .framework extension, but did not find any reference to CoreBluetooth in my project. I also had previously in Info.plist file added: "Privacy - Bluetooth Peripheral Usage Description", with String Value: "App would like to use your bluetooth for communication purposes"". This didn't work either.
Finally after seeing Chase Roberts's answer I added: "NSBluetoothAlwaysUsageDescription", with String value: "App would like to use your bluetooth for communication purposes". After that this error was not shown again for my app while publishing.

Note: In warning for error: ITMS-90683, for my app was said that delivery was successful, but I can if I wish to make changes in regard to stated issue.

Answer 4

Open your Info.plist and add a NSBluetoothAlwaysUsageDescription. You can do this in the editor by adding a line item like this:

Or you can right click on the Info.plist and Open As -> Source Code and paste in the two appropriate lines as xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    ....
    <key>NSBluetoothPeripheralUsageDescription</key>
    <string>We use Bluetooth to connect to the MantisX hardware device.</string>
    ....
</dict>
</plist>