NSBluetoothAlwaysUsageDescription required, but bluetooth is not used

Question

In my ios app with new Xcode 11 GM Seed 2 after deploy, apple returned error: ITMS-90683: Missing Purpose String in Info.plist with NSBluetoothAlwaysUsageDescription.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information_property_list/nsbluetoothalwaysusagedescription?language=objc readed.

The problem is that I don't use bluetooth in my app. Or maybe I don't know about it. How can I find out why this permission purpose is needed?

I'm not using CoreBluetooth.framework

Answer 1

I had this exact same issue today. When I did a grep search I found that there is some reference to CoreBluetooth.framework inside my project.pbxproj

I removed the reference and building the app went fine. Uploaded to Apple and it got through so this worked for me.

To search use the following command

grep -r -a CoreBluetooth.framework ProjectFolder

Answer 2

Open your Info.plist and add a NSBluetoothAlwaysUsageDescription. You can do this in the editor by adding a line item like this:

Or you can right click on the Info.plist and Open As -> Source Code and paste in the two appropriate lines as xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    ....
    <key>NSBluetoothPeripheralUsageDescription</key>
    <string>We use Bluetooth to connect to the MantisX hardware device.</string>
    ....
</dict>
</plist>