Rejected by Apple "Your app is using the Advertising Identifier (IDFA)."

I am attempting to submit my Cordova app using this plugin, and when I submit I get this warning from Apple:

Your app is using the Advertising Identifier (IDFA). You must either provide details about the IDFA usage or remove it from the app and submit your binary again.

I have not enabled any IDFA-related collection in my app as far as I can tell, although I do use setUserId. Would that be triggering it or is it purely something about including the Google SDKs?

[brandonpassley]

For the time being, you can remove libAdIdAccess.a and AdSupport.framework in Xcode in the Linked Frameworks and Libraries section. I’m assuming that means you can remove both of these from the plugin.xml file:

<source-file src="ios/libAdIdAccess.a" framework="true" /> <framework src="AdSupport.framework" />

I just removed them in Xcode, and after I resubmitted Apple had no issues.

[SteveKennedy]

I have created a Cordova Hook to do the edits to this plugin. This Cordova Hook (script) removes “AdSupport.framework” and “libAdIdAccess” references from the plugin.xml, as well as removes it from references found in the corresponding node_module and .project.pbxproj. I have stored it in a Gist. https://gist.github.com/SteveKennedy/7edbe6e5f54d8582a27acbfd8d704c12.

I would attach the Hook to after_plugin_add or before_prepare. I am not sure what the right one is. Here’s the whole list https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/guide/appdev/hooks/. You can add this hook into your Config.xml like so (as an example):

<hook src="scripts/removeAdFramework.js" type="before_prepare" />

I think I’ve commented the code well enough for most people to make sense of what’s happening. I have done some basic testing, and it seems to work. Any suggested edits would be appreciated.