ioscocoapodsprivacy-manifest

Adding Privacy Manifest to CocoaPods iOS SDK

I have a SDK distributed as XCFramework via cocoapods. I have added the PrivacyInfo file in the Resource folder and specify in the podspec as below.

s.resource_bundles = {"MyFramework_Privacy" => ["Resources/PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy"]}

Also verified that PrivacyInfo file has been copied in to different arch folders in XCframework

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However when the consumer app use our SDK and were notified by Apple that they need to provide usage reasons for the required reason APIs and I am not sure why the PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy file that we have shipped not been considered. Any idea please?

Filetree structure

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PrivacyInfo file

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Solution

  • So far, Apple's warning emails have only included the app itself and the app extensions.

    Apple also recently added page that has instructions for including manifests with static libraries. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/privacy_manifest_files/adding_a_privacy_manifest_to_your_app_or_third-party_sdk

    From your screenshot, the PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy is missing 2 of the 4 required entries. That may be why there are issues with Apple detecting and using it.

    The four entries from https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/privacy_manifest_files

    NSPrivacyTracking
NSPrivacyTrackingDomains
NSPrivacyCollectedDataTypes
NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypes