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Question

I'm working on an app for a client that uses freewheel.tv to serve video ads. From what I can tell, freewheel allows ad providers to host their own ads which means that the ad domains are dynamic. I know that after the 1st, Apple is discouraging apps from setting NSAllowsArbitraryLoads to true. I have read some posts about Apple allowing exceptions for certain scenarios but am hesitant to rely on that.

What is the best way to handle this scenario? Do I just explain to my client that we will have to present our use case to Apple and hope they approve it or is there something else I can do? Any guidance here will be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Judging based on this video and many other resources What's New in Security you will need to provide Apple with a sufficient explanation why you need to have this exception. It's probably a good idea to get in touch with them ASAP.

Answer 2

Having a lot of experience with the Apple approval process, I can tell you that I'd be the most surprised person in the world if they let your app go in with the NSAllowsArbitraryLoads flag set to true and refuse everyone else's. The bottom line is that if freewheel.tv wants to keep doing business on iOS devices, they will have to find a solution for their customer to allow specific domains or make it a hard requirement to serve ads over HTTPS.

I highly doubt that having a conversation with Apple (if you can even get a hold of them for this) will any difference.

To solve your problem, you will either have to allow every domain you know is serving ads in your info.plist or change ads provider.