App Store Connect Warns - Invalid Document Configuration

Question

I have submitted a Single View Swift iOS application to App Store Connect. The application is not Document Based.

The application uploads successfully, but I get the following warning in an email from Apple. I can still test the application through Test Flight, but I want to eliminate the warning.

"Invalid Document Configuration - Document Based Apps should support either the Document Browser (UISupportsDocumentBrowser = YES) or implement Open In Place (LSSupportsOpeningDocumentsInPlace = YES/NO)."

Answer 1

I just ran into the same problem; I don't know why, since I barely change anything since the previous version of my app.

Anyway, my app doesn't support the Document Browser, so the first half of the error message doesn't apply. That left me with the second half. I looked up LSSupportsOpeningDocumentsInPlace's documentation and still wasn't clear on how it works, so I decided to try both options. My app supports it's own document type, and when a user opens an appropriate file iOS shows an action sheet with the option "Copy to Leio" (my app). After setting LSSupportsOpeningDocumentsInPlace to YES, iOS wouldn't show that action sheet anymore; it would just open my app and do nothing. So I set it to NO; now the app works as it did before and I'm not getting that error message anymore. If you don't handle any document types I suppose you could set the option either way.

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Edit: There's some more information about that option here.

So there you go. If your app were to edit a document, would it edit the original document, or would it make a copy and deal with that? Set the option accordingly. If you really don't do anything like that I'd guess setting the option to NO would be the safest bet, and I think that's how my app behaved when I hadn't set that option at all.