iOS 10 GM release error when submitting apps "app attempts to access privacy-sensitive data without a usage description" due to GoogleSignIn, AdMob

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Pranoy C picture Pranoy C · Sep 8, 2016 · Viewed 40.4k times · Source

I just started facing this issue with the iOS 10 GM release. I received an email saying:

To process your delivery, the following issues must be corrected:

This app attempts to access privacy-sensitive data without a usage description. The app's Info.plist must contain an NSCameraUsageDescription key with a string value explaining to the user how the app uses this data.

Once the required corrections have been made, you can then redeliver the corrected binary.

Regards,

The App Store team

I am using google GoogleSignIn. I am not using Firebase, but when installing GoogleSignIn with cocoa pods, I saw in the logs it automatically installed Firebase.

Is there something we can do other than having to define these keys as my app has nothing to do with camera / photos etc and hence I don't want users to think we are using them.

I notice someone else has also faced this issue: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/62229

Answer

kevcol picture kevcol · Sep 13, 2016

Here's a link to a complete workaround from Google: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-admob-ads-sdk/UmeVUDrcDaw/HIXR0kjUAgAJ

More info at that link, but TL;DR version is you have to add three items to your plist:

<key>NSCalendarsUsageDescription</key>
<string>Advertisement would like to create a calendar event.</string>
<key>NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription</key>
<string>Advertisement would like to store a photo.</string>
<key>NSBluetoothPeripheralUsageDescription</key>
<string>Advertisement would like to use bluetooth.</string>

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