Resolved App rejected for using TrueDepth API

I have an iPad app using AR Foundation 2.1.4, ARKit Face Tracking 1.0.2, and ARkit XR Plugin 2.1.2. Apple rejected the app because it includes the TrueDepth APIs but isn't using them. Apple recommends upgrading the ARKit plugin and linked to an old forum post from 2017. The forum post says to uncheck "ARKit Uses Face Tracking", but that is not an available option in the settings, all I can do is make ARKit required or optional.

I have tried removing the ARKit Face Tracking package, but that causes build errors in Unity. I've searched the package documentation and couldn't find any information how to remove the TrueDepth APIs.

With the current version of the AR Foundation and AR Kit packages, how do I disable the TrueDepth APIs?

 

I think you do that in the Unity Preferences, have you checked?

 

There's nothing for AR in Unity preferences. The project settings only lets you select if AR Kit is required or optional. You're probably thinking of the deprecated AR Kit plugin.

I think I've solved it but I won't know for sure until it goes through Apple's review process, which is taking longer than normal right now. The key (I think!) was disabling assembly stripping in the project settings, along with removing the face tracking package and sample scripts. Since I had already made an Xcode project I had to delete the face tracking library in the Xcode project too.

 

Did you solution work fv_dave?

 

I used AR Foundation just for ground plane detection and 3D model placement. Our app was rejected, and this is what Apple says: "During review, we found that your app includes TrueDepth APIs. However, we were not able to locate any features in your app that use TrueDepth APIs". Any solutions to this? Maybe, somewhere in the AR Foundation code, they are referencing this API. Thanks.

 

vrlittles: Yes, the solution I posted worked.

dyuldashev: That's exactly the same problem I had, my app is only using plane detection. Try the solution I posted above, no guarantees but it worked for me. Remove the face tracking package, disable assembly stripping, delete any sample scripts that give you build errors, and make sure face tracking library is removed from the Xcode project.

 

Apple rejected my app despite having removed the Face tracking package from package Manager.

What else I need to do, Can you explain

 

[QUOTE = "fv_dave, post: 5221478, member: 934355"] vrlittles: Sí, la solución que publiqué funcionó.

dyuldashev: Ese es exactamente el mismo problema que tuve, mi aplicación solo usa detección de plano. Pruebe la solución que publiqué anteriormente, no hay garantías, pero funcionó para mí. Elimine el paquete de seguimiento de rostros, desactive la eliminación de conjuntos, elimine los scripts de muestra que le dan errores de compilación y asegúrese de que la biblioteca de seguimiento de rostros se elimine del proyecto Xcode. [/ QUOTE]



¿Podría explicar con más detalle lo que hizo para eliminar el paquete de facetrack en xcode

 

@mubeenfa Did you find an answer to this? I'm having the same problem. Any tips would be great!

 

Hi, I'm facing the same problem using ARFoundation version 3.1.3 from april 23, 2020.

None of the solutions above worked for me, namely :
- Removing the package in Unity generates a dependancies problem then the app can't be built
- Removing the library directly in the Xcode project folder creates another build problem with Xcode
- The face tracking is still present in the main ARFoundation Package

See the screenshot below :


Could we have the help of a developer working on ARFoundation please ?

Thanks in advance

 

@SynSeia I received the same rejection. I was able to get the project to compile by removing ARKit Face Tracking, and removing ARKitBlendShapeVisualizer.cs from the ARFoundationSampes/Scripts, which was the only class that was complaining. Haven't submitted the new build yet, but I hope it solves the issue that caused the rejection.

 

@poshaughnessey Thanks a lot for your working solution ! The app has been validated by Apple last week so I can confirm it was the way to go

 

@SynSeia @poshaughnessey forgive the rookie question, but how does one go about removing these? Is all the removing done in Xcode? I can't find ARKitBlendShapeVisualizer.cs in Xcode? I've tried removing references from build settings, but now I have this error:

ld: library not found for -lUnityARKit
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

 

We have just had exactly the same issue. Did you find any kind of solution?

 

@mfuad would you have a list of scripts and scenes that might contain it? (from ar foundation)

rejected again after removed these,
https://forum.unity.com/threads/sub...hout-face-tracking.504572/page-2#post-6653572

*well never mind, it got rid of truedepth issue after those changes. (they were complaining about the existing build, not the one i had in queue)

 

My first version got accepted by apple store. but then I did some changes in UI sections, and then tried to submit new version and it got rejected due to same reason as above.

Now I dont understand why I am facing this, I have face tracking disabled already and obviously dont have ARkit Face Tracking package installed at all, and I can not find anything related to true depth API, not to mention I didnt change anything in my Unity Project except for UI changes. I am attaching screenshot.

If anyone have any idea, let me know. Thank you