Expo using UIWebView even when useWebKit set to true

Question

I'm getting a warning from Apple regarding the usage of UIWebView in my expo app (in Testflight). From the documentation, I thought that using useWebKit={true} would use the WKWebView version, but after enabling it and uploading to the store, I continue to get the same warning. My WebView looks like this:

I've tried setting the useWebKit={true}.

<WebView
style={styles.container}
javaScriptEnabled={true}
domStorageEnabled={true}
useWebKit={true}
cacheEnabled={false}
source={{ uri: this.state.url  }}
>
</WebView>

I expected Expo to use the WKWebView thus avoiding the deprecation warning.

Answer 1

According to this thread:

https://forums.expo.io/t/received-mail-from-apple-about-the-deprecated-api-uiwebview/27117 .

They have removed instances of using UIWebView, But some of third party dependencies are still using UIWebView . They're still planning to remove completely all instances of UIWebView in the future. Even the current release which is SDK 35(at the time of writing) some reported receiving the email and Some didn't. I receive the email and I am using SDK 33 . I'll upgrade and see where it goes. For now I'll check if useWebKit props will get rid of this issue using SDK 35 .