Problem publishing to apple.

ScoreDScoreD Member, PRO Posts: 6
in iPhone and Android Publishing

I submitted an update to an app and received this back from apple. Nothing other than iAd is checked. Marking the idfa box during upload is incorrect as well.

Improper Advertising Identifier [IDFA] Usage. Your app contains the Advertising Identifier [IDFA] API but you have not indicated its usage on the Prepare for Upload page in iTunes Connect.

Once these issues have been corrected, go to the Version Details page and click "Ready to Upload Binary." Continue through the submission process until the app status is "Waiting for Upload." You can then deliver the corrected binary.

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  • aussiefazaussiefaz Member, PRO Posts: 86

    I think you have to ensure you've selected the advertising in the setup on itunes end. I do remember seeing an area about your app serving adds on it when I did mine again last week

    Download UfoBlaster on the iTunes store

  • ScoreDScoreD Member, PRO Posts: 6

    Yeah, I tried that as well. After a week waiting for review, they came back with this...

    PLA 3.3.12

    We found your app uses the iOS Advertising Identifier but does not include ad functionality. This does not comply with the terms of the iOS Developer Program License Agreement, as required by the App Store Review Guidelines.

    Specifically, section 3.3.12 of the iOS Developer Program License Agreement states:

    "You and Your Applications (and any third party with whom you have contracted to serve advertising) may use the Advertising Identifier, and any information obtained through the use of the Advertising Identifier, only for the purpose of serving advertising. If a user resets the Advertising Identifier, then You agree not to combine, correlate, link or otherwise associate, either directly or indirectly, the prior Advertising Identifier and any derived information with the reset Advertising Identifier."

    Note: iAd does not use the AdSupport framework, ASIdentifierManager, or the Advertising Identifier. Therefore they are not required for iAd implementations and should not be included in your app for iAd support.

    Please check your code - including any third-party libraries - to remove any instances of:

    class: ASIdentifierManager
    selector: advertisingIdentifier
    framework: AdSupport.framework

    If you are planning to incorporate ads in a future version, please remove the Advertising Identifier from your app until you have included ad functionality.

    To help locate the Advertising Identifier, use the “nm” tool. For information on the “nm” tool, please see the nm man page.

    If you do not have access to the libraries' source, you may be able to search the compiled binary using the "strings" or "otool" command line tools. The "strings" tool lists the methods that the library calls, and "otool -ov" will list the Objective-C class structures and their defined methods. These techniques can help you narrow down where the problematic code resides.

  • kipdevkipdev Member Posts: 275

    Once this is figured out PLEASE send me an email @ kipdevdeveloper@gmail.com or just post how you got this resolved. I am also having the same issue loading my app. I am not using ads in my app, if i click no in itunes i get the "IDFA" response, if i click yes it goes into waiting for review but then i get this same response from apple listed above. I dont know how to resolve this either. Thank you so much for whomever response to this. I would really like to get my app uploaded.

  • BrunoGamesBrunoGames Member, PRO Posts: 87

    @kipdev @ronnyrader, hi, i just uploaded my game, to IOS, and was approved today.
    I had the IDFA, message also...

    1st time - didn't select any boxes there, Result was rejected.

    2nd time - just selected the 1st boxe - saying I have ADS on this application
    result: It was Approved


    Hope this give you some help...

  • kipdevkipdev Member Posts: 275

    @brunoGames Do you actually have ads? and are you charging .99 for your app, or is it free?

  • darrelfdarrelf Member Posts: 243

    @ronnyrader Which ads are you using?

    My game was rejected earlier this week. The reason? It was simply because the tester hadn't played the game for long enough for the Revmob ad to actually show. It's on a 60 second timer. Goes to show sometimes the testers don't test for very long (unless Revmob didn't fill an ad request in the first or second attempts)

  • BrunoGamesBrunoGames Member, PRO Posts: 87

    @kipdev .. Yes I have ads, CB and Revmob... the app is free.

    IOS also have IAP otpion, to Remove ads...

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