Is it a problem when an iAd may be obscured?

Question

I added the ADBannerView to a view and when I load the app I get the following message:

ADBannerView: WARNING A banner view (0x7a023c0) has an ad but may be obscured. Th

Answer 1

Like compiler warnings, I think this is something that you should probably try to get to the bottom of even if it's not immediately causing problems. If I were Apple, I'd send my ads to apps that actually show them (I'm not saying they do do this), so there could be a financial aspect too.

A couple of problems that I've seen:

• The iAd frame is slightly off, maybe off the screen by just a pixel or two
• You've accidentally created two iAds and one is on-screen and the other is hidden behind the first