Does requesting denied permissions again rejects app in appstore?

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Created Mar ’21

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I have a use case where if the user denied any permission(camera, microphone, etc), an alert must be shown to the user to navigate to setting->Privacy and grant permissions which were denied previously.

Because these are required permissions to further functionality I need to ask with an alert, otherwise, it will be useless.

So how does it affect AppStore guidelines? Does Appstore reject these kinds of apps?

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/ios/app-architecture/requesting-permission/

referred to the above link, but didn't find anything like don't ask for the permission with a custom popup, etc

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Answer 1

Claude31 OP

Mar ’21

My understanding is that the user has to go through the settings:
If camera access has been denied or restricted, you can alert the user and direct them to the Settings app to make the appropriate permissions adjustment.

See here for details:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54745952/not-able-to-show-the-alert-if-user-denied-the-camera-access

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Answer 2

OOPer OP

Mar ’21

an alert must be shown to the user to navigate to setting->Privacy

If you use private URLs to open Settings app, that can be a reason of rejection in App Review.
Any URLs which are not documented in Apple's documentations are considered to be private, you should be careful about that.

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Answer 3

Claude31 OP

Mar ’21

Yes, the alert should instruct to go to settings > Privacy.

The only direct access to settings is for the app's own settings if I remember well.

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