ITMS-91053 🍎 iOS

ITMS-91053: Missing API declaration — Your app's code references required reason APIs (privacy manifest)

The app (or an SDK in it) uses “required reason” APIs like UserDefaults, file timestamps or disk space without declaring reasons in a PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy file.

Seen on: iOS

Meaning

Since 2024 Apple requires privacy manifests listing NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypes with approved reasons. Third-party SDKs must ship their own manifests — update them.

Common causes

  • App’s own PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy missing or incomplete
  • Old third-party SDK without a privacy manifest
  • Static library code not covered by any manifest

⚡ Quick fix

  1. Add PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy with the API categories and reasons listed in the email
  2. Update SDKs to versions with privacy manifests
  3. Generate a privacy report from the archive to check

Detailed fix by platform

XML

  1. swift
    <key>NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypes</key>
<array><dict>
  <key>NSPrivacyAccessedAPIType</key><string>NSPrivacyAccessedAPICategoryUserDefaults</string>
  <key>NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypeReasons</key><array><string>CA92.1</string></array>
</dict></array>

How to diagnose

  1. Email — Which API categories are listed?
  2. SDKs — Versions with manifests?
  3. Report — Organizer → Generate Privacy Report

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