Apple won't accept my app even though I'm not using any UIWebView

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I'm having a problem uploading my app to the AppStore. Apple says that I am using a deprecated API, UIWebView. But I checked my whole project and there is no UIWebView. Has anyone encountered this error? Thanks. Here's apple's message:

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.

After you’ve corrected the issues, you can upload a new binary to App Store Connect.

Here's my pods:

pod 'Alamofire', '<= 4.8.0'
pod 'AlamofireObjectMapper', '<= 5.2.0'
pod 'SDWebImage', '<= 4.4.3'
pod 'ReachabilitySwift', '<= 4.3.0'
pod 'RealmSwift'
pod 'ValidationComponents', '~> 0.3.0'
pod 'Willow', '<= 5.1.0'
pod 'CountryPickerView', '<= 2.2.0'
pod 'PhoneNumberKit', '~> 2.6'
pod 'IQKeyboardManagerSwift'
pod 'SwiftKeychainWrapper', '<= 3.0.1'
pod 'Toast-Swift', '<= 4.0.1'
pod 'MBProgressHUD', '~> 1.1.0'
pod 'Mixpanel-swift', '~> 2.6.2'
pod 'ServiceSDK/Chat', '<= 218.0.0'
pod 'OneSignal', '>= 2.6.2', '<= 2.9.5'
pod 'DeviceKit'
pod 'SwiftLint', '<= 0.30.1'
pod 'AppCenter', '~> 2.0.1'

Done. I tried searching 'UIWebView' in the whole project, but there's no such keyword. I even removed the word 'UIWebView' in comments. Haha. Just in case. But this apple message still shows. I tried uploading my app 2x. — Christian Bringino, Jan 02 '20 at 10:47
One of your pods might be using UIWebView internally. Try to find it and replace with alternative. — Himanth, Jan 02 '20 at 10:48
how would i know which library is using uiwebview? I tried this command : grep -r "UIWebView", but it's stuck in "grep: warning: recursive search of stdin". — Christian Bringino, Jan 02 '20 at 10:53
I would say remove the versions from your podfile and run the pod install again so they can update. I hope it won't break your code. Try it once. — mutAnT, Jan 02 '20 at 10:53
Did you check https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57722616/itms-90809-deprecated-api-usage-apple-will-stop-accepting-submissions-of-app ? — Martin R, Jan 02 '20 at 10:54
You miss the final dot! The command to execute are: grep -r "UIWebView" . — Dhaval Raval, Jan 02 '20 at 11:00
./Pods/OneSignal/iOS_SDK/OneSignalSDK/Framework/OneSignal.framework/Versions/A/OneSignal matches ./Pods/OneSignal/iOS_SDK/OneSignalSDK/Framework/OneSignal.framework/Versions/A/Headers/OneSignal.h:/* Web address to launch within the app via a UIWebView */ — Christian Bringino, Jan 02 '20 at 11:04
I've fixed the issue by updating OneSignal version from '>= 2.6.2', '<= 2.9.5' to '>= 2.11.2', '< 3.0'. Turns out OneSignal is the culprit. I've figured this by using this command inside the project directory: grep -r "UIWebView" . (including the dot). Thanks guys! — Christian Bringino, Jan 03 '20 at 02:44

Jawad Ali · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-02T16:04:08.273

WKWebView is the replacement for UIWebView. If you don't have UIWebView usage in your code than by executing the below terminal command you can easily get to know that which library is still using UIWebView reference (don't miss the . (dot)).

grep -r UIWebView /Path/To/Project/*

Output for framework match

./<ANY>.framework/Headers/ANY.h:#define ANYUseUIWebView ANY_NAME_PASTE(ANY_PREFIX_NAME, ANYUseUIWebView)

Output for library match

Binary file ./<FRAMEWORK-NAME>.framework/<LIB-FILE>.a matches

Update these Libraries

also check out this article https://medium.com/@zivchen_42755/for-me-that-wasnt-enough-it-didn-t-found-all-of-them-thats-weird-something-to-do-with-pod-i-a068d55b7fab

Apple won't accept my app even though I'm not using any UIWebView

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