Flutter: How to fix ITMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage - Apple will stop accepting submissions of apps that use UIWebView APIs

Question

When submitting my latest build, Apple suddenly returned a message saying that there was an issue, specifically:

ITMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage - Apple

Answer 1

Even though I'm not using firebase_auth in my app, I was finding references to UIWEBVIEW in Xcode search from FirebaseAuth. It seems that Pods includes this by default. So this worked for me:

1. Open project in Xcode
2. Open the Pods folder and you will probably see a lot of sub-folders (packages)
3. Right-click on the FirebaseAuth folder and select Delete
4. Then select "Remove References" not "Move to Trash"
5. Build the project
6. The UIWEBVIEW references should be gone