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App store rejecting app because of UIWebView, but UIWebView only in comments, not actual code

I'm getting an app rejected because if contains UIWebView. When I rune

grep -r "UIWebView" . I get back the following results:

Binary file ./App.xcworkspace/xcuserdata/codegama.xcuserdatad/UserInterfaceState.xcuserstate matches
./Pods/AppAuth/README.md:for the auth request. `UIWebView` and `WKWebView` are explicitly *not*
Binary file ./Pods/PayPal-iOS-SDK/PayPalMobile/libPayPalMobile.a matches
./Pods/GoogleSignIn/CHANGELOG.md:- Supports sign-in via UIWebView rather than app switching to a browser,

So I tried opening the UserInterfaceState.xcuserstate file with a text editor, but it's a different file format. The other reference in the paypal Pod is just something in the ReadMe file.

So my question is, can I just remove the word from the paypal readme file? And second, how do I edit the UserInterfaceState.xcuserstate to remove that reference?

Solution

  • libPayPalMobile.a inside of the PayPal SDK most likely contains a reference to UIWebView in it.

    However, the PayPal SDK is deprecated and it is now recommended to use Braintree Direct. So to solve this issue, you must either remove your integration with the PayPal SDK or migrate to use Braintree Direct.