We received a message from iOS App Team about adding NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription
key in Info.plist
file. Our last build was rejected for this specific reason.
Being clueless about what went wrong here. I googled up and found some interesting things.
NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription
key needs to be added to your Info.plist
file if your app using user's location data. You need to add a custom message about why you need user's location data as well.Quite surpised by this, we were not using geolocation service or tracking user's location. Our app didn't need this specific functionality. So why we do we need to tell the user that we are tracking the user location while we are not ?
Turns out React Native has a GeoLocation
service which gets included by default into your build. Even if you do not use the GeoLocation API
in your codebase , it is still in your app build. This triggers code bots about possible usage of Geolocation.
How do you solve this ?
Referring to this github issue - https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/20879. There are three possible ways. I tried the first and easy one and that worked fine for me. I deleted RCTGeolocation.xcodeproj
from libraries
folder in XCode and rebuilt the app. You can see on the left Libraries in current app in below screenshot. This solved the NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription
issue.
Update- I am told that this issue will be fixed around React Native version 60.
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Top comments (2)
i am using latest 0.70 version of react native. from the latest react native, we are getting this.
as per your comment if we not needed the location for our app can we remove this key ?
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