App Tracking Transparency and Cookies

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DuncWatts OP

Created Oct ’21

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I'm using a webview for the UI of my application, this uses a cookie for the login process.

This cookie is only for handling the login and isn't used for advertising, tracking or sharing with third parties.

My store submission is failing because the application doesn't show the App Tracking Transparency prompt. My understanding from reading the documentation is this is required if you're tracking the user through multiple apps/websites and/or passing that data to third parties or for targeted advertising.

The application does none of these things, therefore from the documentation I shouldn't need to show the App Tracking Transparency prompt.

Is it the case that the use of cookies at any point for any reason within a web view within an application require the use of the App Tracking Transparency prompt, as I feel this should have been highlighted within the documentation if this is the case?

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Answer 1

PepazLhoty OP

Jan ’22

Do you have any new info about it?

We have the same problem - our app is web wrapper and the cookie is only for the session. No tracking at all.

Our progress - after long ping-pong with some robot that it is cookie for session, no tracking at all and all responses were like cookies = tracking so you have to implement App Tracking Transparency.

So we decided to add ATT to app and filled the form with tracked info (there is nothing tracked) and the robot answered, that we have to explain how we track the user - because we implemented ATT, so we are tracking.

Exact example of Catch-22.

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Answer 2

tctt OP

Apr ’22

Are here any Solutions about this? We are running in the same Issue

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jjjppp OP

Apr ’22

We were running into this same issue. Our fix was to change our app so that any webpage with cookies is not opened inside our app (this includes WebView and SafariKit). Calling UIApplication's open(url: , options: ) instead.

Hope this helps.

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EFRENPB OP

Oct ’22

Any update on this? We use a webview to perform login and the webview shows a cookie banner, but we don't use those cookies to track.

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emilix1995@tiscali.it OP

Dec ’22

Some news ? my app is blocked, i have wkwebviews, even if i enter the ATT popup as i refuse to track a webview ? did you find a solution? unfortunately I can't redirect the user out of the app because the app is hybrid with webview operation

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