UIWebView support end date

Hi Team,

Our app is currently using UIWebView. We have already started working on the migration to WKWebview. However, it might take some time for us to replace UIWebView with WKWebview completely.

Apple's official website says that we don't have any new date yet as earlier it was December 2020 but it was extended now.

Could you please confirm that when will we have a new date for the same.
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You're right. Apple official site (https://developer.apple.com/news/) updated april 8, says:

Deadline extended for app updates using UIWebView 
October 8, 2020.
Apple designed WKWebView in 2014 to ensure that you can integrate web content into your app quickly, securely, and consistently across iOS and macOS. Since then, we’ve recommended that you adopt WKWebView instead of UIWebView and WebView — both of which were formally deprecated. New apps containing these frameworks are no longer accepted by the App Store. And last year, we announced that the App Store will no longer accept app updates containing UIWebView as of December 2020. 

However, to provide additional time for you to adopt WKWebView and to ensure that it supports the features most often requested by developers, this deadline for app updates has been extended beyond the end of 2020. We’ll let you know when a new deadline is confirmed.

I advise you to contact Apple support directly.

When they announced at the end of 2019, they gave a 12 months time to comply. My personal guess is that there should be also several (3 ? 6 ?) months left once Apple announces the new date.
But you should speed up, as new iOS release could make it impossible to support UIWebView.

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