React Native Remove Bluetooth Permission Alert for iOS

Question

I am not requesting bluetooth permission in my app code but it's asking for permission alert in iOS when the app loads.

I couldn't find any reference in my code and I followed all the solutions suggested in this: link but it didn't work

I also added the below purpose string into info.plist for NSBluetoothAlwaysUsageDescription but apple rejected the app.

"Our app does not request this permission or utilize this functionality but it is included in our info.plist since our app utilizes the react-native-permissions library, which references this permission in its code."

If anyone had same issue and was able to resolve this, please help. Thanks

Here is the pod file:

 platform :ios, '9.0' require_relative '../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-ios/native_modules' def add_flipper_pods!(versions = {}) versions['Flipper'] ||= '~> 0.33.1' versions['DoubleConversion'] ||= '1.1.7' versions['Flipper-Folly'] ||= '~> 2.1' versions['Flipper-Glog'] ||= '0.3.6' versions['Flipper-PeerTalk'] ||= '~> 0.0.4' versions['Flipper-RSocket'] ||= '~> 1.0' pod 'FlipperKit', versions['Flipper'], :configuration => 'Debug' pod 'FlipperKit/FlipperKitLayoutPlugin', versions['Flipper'], :configuration => 'Debug' pod 'FlipperKit/SKIOSNetworkPlugin', versions['Flipper'], :configuration => 'Debug' pod 'FlipperKit/FlipperKitUserDefaultsPlugin', versions['Flipper'], :configuration => 'Debug' pod 'FlipperKit/FlipperKitReactPlugin', versions['Flipper'], :configuration => 'Debug' # List all transitive dependencies for FlipperKit pods # to avoid them being linked in Release builds pod 'Flipper', versions['Flipper'], :configuration => 'Debug' pod 'Flipper-DoubleConversion', versions['DoubleConversion'], :configuration => 'Debug' pod 'Flipper-Folly', versions['Flipper-Folly'], :configuration => 'Debug' pod 'Flipper-Glog', versions['Flipper-Glog'], :configuration => 'Debug' pod 'Flipper-PeerTalk', versions['Flipper-PeerTalk'], :configuration => 'Debug' pod 'Flipper-RSocket', versions['Flipper-RSocket'], :configuration => 'Debug' pod 'FlipperKit/Core', versions['Flipper'], :configuration => 'Debug' pod 'FlipperKit/CppBridge', versions['Flipper'], :configuration => 'Debug' pod 'FlipperKit/FBCxxFollyDynamicConvert', versions['Flipper'], :configuration => 'Debug' pod 'FlipperKit/FBDefines', versions['Flipper'], :configuration => 'Debug' pod 'FlipperKit/FKPortForwarding', versions['Flipper'], :configuration => 'Debug' pod 'FlipperKit/FlipperKitHighlightOverlay', versions['Flipper'], :configuration => 'Debug' pod 'FlipperKit/FlipperKitLayoutTextSearchable', versions['Flipper'], :configuration => 'Debug' pod 'FlipperKit/FlipperKitNetworkPlugin', versions['Flipper'], :configuration => 'Debug' end # Post Install processing for Flipper def flipper_post_install(installer) installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target| if target.name == 'YogaKit' target.build_configurations.each do |config| config.build_settings['SWIFT_VERSION'] = '4.1' end end end end target 'Urent' do # React Native rn_path = '../node_modules/react-native' rn_maps_path = '../node_modules/react-native-maps' # Pods for Urent pod 'FBLazyVector', :path => "../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/FBLazyVector" pod 'FBReactNativeSpec', :path => "../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/FBReactNativeSpec" pod 'RCTRequired', :path => "../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/RCTRequired" pod 'RCTTypeSafety', :path => "../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/TypeSafety" pod 'React', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/' pod 'React-Core', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/' pod 'React-CoreModules', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/React/CoreModules' pod 'React-Core/DevSupport', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/' pod 'React-RCTActionSheet', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/ActionSheetIOS' pod 'React-RCTAnimation', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/NativeAnimation' pod 'React-RCTBlob', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Blob' pod 'React-RCTImage', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Image' pod 'React-RCTLinking', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/LinkingIOS' pod 'React-RCTNetwork', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Network' pod 'React-RCTSettings', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Settings' pod 'React-RCTText', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Text' pod 'React-RCTVibration', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Vibration' pod 'React-Core/RCTWebSocket', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/' pod 'React-cxxreact', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon/cxxreact' pod 'React-jsi', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon/jsi' pod 'React-jsiexecutor', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon/jsiexecutor' pod 'React-jsinspector', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon/jsinspector' pod 'ReactCommon/callinvoker', :path => "../node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon" pod 'ReactCommon/turbomodule/core', :path => "../node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon" pod 'Yoga', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon/yoga', :modular_headers => true pod 'DoubleConversion', :podspec => '../node_modules/react-native/third-party-podspecs/DoubleConversion.podspec' pod 'glog', :podspec => '../node_modules/react-native/third-party-podspecs/glog.podspec' pod 'Folly', :podspec => '../node_modules/react-native/third-party-podspecs/Folly.podspec' pod 'react-native-geolocation', path: '../node_modules/@react-native-community/geolocation' pod 'Firebase', '~> 6.24.0' pod 'Firebase/Core', '~> 6.24.0' pod 'Firebase/Messaging', '~> 6.24.0' pod 'GoogleMaps', '3.5.0' pod 'Google-Maps-iOS-Utils', '2.1.0' pod 'GoogleUtilities', '6.6.0' pod 'GoogleAppMeasurement', '6.5.0' pod 'react-native-google-maps', path: rn_maps_path # <~~ if you need GoogleMaps support on iOS pod 'RNVectorIcons', :path => '../node_modules/react-native-vector-icons' target 'UrentTests' do inherit! :complete # Pods for testing end use_native_modules! # Enables Flipper. # # Note that if you have use_frameworks! enabled, Flipper will not work and # you should disable these next few lines. add_flipper_pods! post_install do |installer| flipper_post_install(installer) installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target| if target.name == 'react-native-google-maps' target.build_configurations.each do |config| config.build_settings['CLANG_ENABLE_MODULES'] = 'No' end end if target.name == "React" target.remove_from_project end end end end target 'Urent-tvOS' do # Pods for Urent-tvOS target 'Urent-tvOSTests' do inherit! :search_paths # Pods for testing end end

Answer 1

Thankfully, I was able to resolve the issue and successfully removed the Bluetooth permission alert. In my case the problem was with the library "react-native-connectivity-status". I downgraded the library from version "1.5.2" to "1.5.1". Here are the steps:

Change

"react-native-connectivity-status": "^1.5.1",

To

"react-native-connectivity-status": "1.5.1",

Then ran following commands:

rm -rf node_modules/
rm package-lock.json
npm i
cd ios/
rm -rf Pods/
pod install