Detect apps on my iphone without being rejected by Apple?

Question

My app has been rejected by Apple for the following reason "Our team is aware that iHasApp is using publicly available APIs, however this specific implementation abuses canOpenURL: to detect all apps on a given device".So I start to look for another way to list all the installed app in the user's phone.So my questions are:

1/Are they some web apps which can detect the installed apps?

2/is it possible to detect apps using their icones?

I think the reason your app is being rejected is because it tries to detect other installed apps, not because it uses canOpenURL specifically. — Atsby, May 18 '15 at 08:45

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

If you implement a workaround, the chances are that Apple will still reject your app anyway.

Obtaining a list of applications installed on the phone is evidently disallowed. Apple has rejected apps using lots of methods to detect this:

Your solution of "canOpenURL"
This solution using private apis List of all apps installed on iOS device and their position on the Home Screen (Springboard)
This (dated) answer using file path manipulation and private apis: get list of installed applications on iphone objective-c

Detect apps on my iphone without being rejected by Apple?

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