Application gets rejected on ios because of ASIdentifierManager

[amromezzat]

I am trying to publish a game in the kids' category which has Facebook login with a parental gate, but my application gets rejected with the following message:

Guideline 1.3 - Safety - Kids Category

We noticed that your Kids Category app includes analytics, advertising and collects, transmits, or has the ability to share personal information or device information with third parties. Specifically:

• Your app includes third-party analytics or third-party advertising with the ability to collect, transmit or share identifiable information, including, for example, IDFA. We found that your app references the ASIdentifierManager API, which provides access to a user's IDFA, in the following location(s) in your binary:

• Frameworks/FBSDKCoreKit.framework/FBSDKCoreKit

It would be appropriate to remove all instances of “ASIdentifierManager” from your app, even if they are not utilized in your app's functionality.

Is there any solution to this?

[kleton5]

Same issue here, I had to release an update so for the time being I have completely removed the SDK from my project. Would be great if there was another solution to keep FB functionalities!

[snorrsi]

Yes, it's quite simple fix. However you need to fix the Facebook SDK iOS code. You need to make a conditional checks in 4 files.

The files are FBSDKCoreKit/FBSDKCoreKit/AppEvents/Internal/FBSDKAppEventsUtility.m FBSDKCoreKit/FBSDKCoreKit/FBSDKSettings.m FBSDKCoreKit/FBSDKCoreKit/Internal/FBSDKDynamicFrameworkLoader.h FBSDKCoreKit/FBSDKCoreKit/Internal/FBSDKDynamicFrameworkLoader.m

for reference you can check out: https://github.com/snorrsi/facebook-ios-sdk/commit/9d69d9ab0e510359311085def696c750c345037a

few commits there after fix initial spelling error I made

Newest fix for 11.2.1 is at https://github.com/snorrsi/facebook-ios-sdk/tree/v11.2.1-ban-idfa

In my post processing I add these files and add the line at the top of each of the 4 files #define FBSDK_IDFA_DISALLOWED 1

Did that as a workaround as I had some issue adding the conditional build setting to Xcode

[amromezzat]

Thanks, @snorrsi. I had to remove the package from our project as @kleton5 did. But I am going to try it soon.

[markgrossnickle]

Question on this. If we remove those checks will Facebook still be able to track installs or is this code required for tracking installs?