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TMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage - New apps that use UIWebView are no longer accepted

Bug Report

TMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage - New apps that use UIWebView are no longer accepted. Instead, use WKWebView for improved security and reliability.

Problem

I did two experiments:

1: Uninstall admobs from the project and submited, result: PASSED 2: Uninstaled everything except admobs and resubmitted, result: FAILED

Sharing the podfile.lock + platform details + list of plugins I'm using in my project:

ionic -v : 6.10.1
cordova -v : 9.0.0 (cordova-lib@9.0.1)
"cordova-ios": "^6.1.0"
"cordova-plugin-admob-free": "^0.27.0"
"cordova-admob-sdk": "^0.24.1"
 "cordova-plugin-firebasex": "^10.1.0-cli",

List of plugins used :

cordova-admob-sdk 0.24.1 "AdMob SDK"
cordova-plugin-admob-free 0.27.0 "Cordova AdMob Plugin"
cordova-plugin-androidx 2.0.0 "cordova-plugin-androidx"
cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter 1.1.1 "cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter"
cordova-plugin-device 2.0.2 "Device"
cordova-plugin-firebasex 10.1.0-cli "Google Firebase Plugin"
cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard 2.2.0 "cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard"
cordova-plugin-ionic-webview 4.2.1 "cordova-plugin-ionic-webview"
cordova-plugin-splashscreen 5.0.2 "Splashscreen"
cordova-plugin-statusbar 2.4.2 "StatusBar"
cordova-plugin-whitelist 1.3.3 "Whitelist"
cordova-promise-polyfill 0.0.2 "cordova-promise-polyfill"

What is expected to happen?

TMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage - New apps that use UIWebView are no longer accepted. Instead, use WKWebView for improved security and reliability.

What does actually happen?

ios app is not approved

Command or Code

Ran grep -r UIWebView Platforms/

Binary file `Platforms//ios/MyApp/Plugins/cordova-admob-sdk/GoogleMobileAds.framework/GoogleMobileAds` matches

It reference to cordova ios ad mobs plugin framework

POD File link: https://www.pastiebin.com/5f0e8e3ad68a2 Google ad mobs forum (My Question): https://groups.google.com/g/google-admob-ads-sdk/c/QuZMbjIyxn8/m/dyAxJZfOBAAJ Google ad mobs forum (Google's answer): https://groups.google.com/g/google-admob-ads-sdk/c/QuZMbjIyxn8/m/6lQW004KBAAJ

MacOS Version: 10.14.5