Closed mvanbeusekom closed 6 months ago
Have you had any communication with Apple about how to describe usage of location information an the SDK level, given that it's the client application that will ultimately use the data?
@stuartmorgan, I did contact Apple with the following question:
Thank you for reaching out to us. I have been going through the documentation regarding the new privacy manifest and I am struggling with one question. In the case of the geolocator_apple package we do not track data nor do we link data to a user, it simply exposes the CLLocationManager SDK to a Dart interface so Flutter developers can easily consume the SDK using the Dart programming language. Does this mean we can use a simple manifest file which simply explains we do not track data or do we still need to specify entries for the "NSPrivacyCollectedDataTypes" dictionary?
I am a bit confused on the term "collect" used in the Apple documentation. Does Apple consider the geolocator_apple package to "collect" location information because it makes calls into the CLLocationManager SDK even if the package doesn't persist this data?
They confirmed they will look into the questions however they haven't responded back.
Thanks, that tracks with what I've heard from other developers as well. I'll reach out to everyone if/when we hear more.
Hello!
What is the status of the response to this matter? You may need an empty manifest even if you are not collecting anything 😭 https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/131940#issuecomment-1881641272
If an empty manifest is ok I may be able to create a PR for you too.
Apple has indicated an enforcement date of May 1st for Privacy Manifests.
Starting May 1, 2024, apps that don’t describe their use of required reason API in their privacy manifest file aren’t accepted by App Store Connect.
We have just release version 2.3.7 of the geolocator_apple package which includes the required privacy manifest. More details can be found in PR #1462.
Starting from April 2024 SDKs used by applications that are published to the Apple App Store need to specify a privacy manifest and digital signature.
Apple reached out with the following:
Flutter is tracking this in flutter/flutter#131940