Improper advertising identifier [IDFA] usage (Limit Ad Tracking)

Question

I'm submitting an ios game update to the app store.

xcode shows the following error: "Improper advertising identifier [IDFA] usage. Your app contains the Advertising Identifier [IDFA] API but your app is not respecting the Limit Ad Tracking setting in iOS."

I haven't changed anything regearding my ad settings and there were no problems with the last version of my app.

I have been trying to find a workaround for the last 20 hours and I am starting to become insane. What do I have to change and how? Please help me!

Answer 1

I had a similar error in an update to an app. I wasn't using any ads but do have Facebook integration (which needs the AdSupport framework). I believe, after searching the net, that Facebook uses the advertising ID for its own analysis purposes so, even though I'm not including ads in my app, the validation and upload processes through xCode were failing with the error "Your app contains the Advertising Identifier [IDFA] API..."

I searched and found that I needed to download the Facebook SDK source code, update the FBUtility.m to remove the references to the advertisingID but, in fact, I simply needed to:

1) download the source code for the latest SDK, which I did from here: https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk (I downloaded the zip file from github to my documents folder)

2) build the framework - open the terminal. Use cd documents at the command prompt, then use this command: sudo scripts/build_framework.sh, which will run the build_framework.sh script that is in the scripts subfolder within the downloaded Facebook SDK folder

3) Remove the old FacebookSDK.framework from your Xcode project and add the new one (in my case, I navigated to documents/facebook-ios-sdk/build & choose the FacebookSDK.framework folder

4) Archive the project and it should (it was in my case) be good to upload

Hope that helps someone along the way - I've been at this for days!!

Answer 2

You can try update newest version of Admob, or check [ASIdentifierManager sharedManager] isAdvertisingTrackingEnabled before call Admob because Apple now require apps need check this settings in user devices.