Question

I recently had an app rejected because it called a private API – ‘hideKeyboard’. It’s a little unfortunate since the code snippet in question was something that I’d pulled off the web and then decided not to use. Although the code was never called, I’d forgotten to remove it (and I had no idea that it called a private API).

So, I removed the code and resubmitted, however it was then rejected again for the same reason.

I searched all my code and any 3rd party libraries to no avail. I then used the strings utility on the original app binary and verified that hideKeyboard was indeed listed. Finally I used it on the new binary (also submitted to Apple) and there was no sign of it.

I suspect that Apple may have rescanned the first binary again – has anyone here every experienced that error?

Is there any tool that I can use to prove that I’m not calling the ‘hideKeyboard’ function

I’ve lodged an appeal, but I fear that this is becoming messy and will now take a long time to resolve.

Regards,

Tim

Answer 1

Apple had indeed made an error in rescanning the old binary. The app was quickly reviewed and accepted.