Question: App Store rejection

[fobin]

I know this is not directly about this package but it's dependency. I just wonder if anyone else has been hit with App Store rejection.

We have identified that the app contains functionality that is connected to a U.S. embargoed territory. Specifically, the app includes the following link/s in the binary:

https://nic.ir.md/

After digging where this comes I found that it comes from public_suffix_list.dat which is in MLKitTextRecognitionCommon

grep -r 'public_suffix_list.dat' Pods/
Binary file Pods/MLKitTextRecognitionCommon/Frameworks/MLKitTextRecognitionCommon.framework/MLKitTextRecognitionCommon matches

Anyone else got this and how they resolved it?

[agrishkevich]

Have the same issue

[fobin]

I couldn't come up with way to notify MLKit team to fix the binary. So I came up with my way. I DON'T RECOMMEND this to anyone but I just got my app past the review.

Added new Run Script step in Xcode as final step.

binary_path="Pods/MLKitTextRecognitionCommon/Frameworks/MLKitTextRecognitionCommon.framework/MLKitTextRecognitionCommon"

echo "Searching for \.ir in $binary_path..."

grep -aob '\.ir' "$binary_path" | while IFS=: read -r offset match; do
  echo "Found '.ir' at offset $offset — replacing with \\x00\\x00\\x00"
  python3 -c "with open('$binary_path', 'r+b') as f: f.seek($offset); f.write(b'\x00\x00\x00')"
done

echo "Done patching all occurrences of '.ir'"

[HassanTaleb90]

I'm experiencing the same issue, so I’ve created a new report on the Google Issue Tracker:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/411157364

I’ve also linked it on GitHub for visibility:
googlesamples/mlkit#939

Update: (FIXED)
https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/release-notes#june_27_2025