Privacy Manifest in third party libraries integrated

Suppose I have some third party frameworks integrated in an application. From May inwards, its mandatory to have privacy manifest for all the tracking APIs. But if the third party library doesnt have any plans to integrate the third party framework, how should we proceed to avoid rejection from the app store?

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I’d like to clarify your question. You use the following terms:

  • “an application”

  • “third party frameworks”

  • “third party library”

Presumably the first one is the application you ship. What about the second and third? Are those different things? If so, what’s the relationship between them?

It might help if you made up some names for each item and write your question using those namse. So, something like:

I have an app, WaffleVarnishSupreme, that uses a third-party framework, MegaWaffler. That framework uses another third-party library, SyrupOMatic. …


But, to address the big picture here, you as the app developer are responsible for all the code within your app. If you use some third-party code that doesn’t follow the App Store rules, your three fundamental options are:

  • Break your dependency and that code and then remove it.

  • Work with the code’s vendor to get them to change the code.

  • If the code is open source, change the code yourself.

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