IOS app rejected for 3.8 (unacceptable rating)

Question

I submitted a link in which there is absolutely no offensive content. Therefore, I rated my application accordingly (4+). However, the application, as a convenience for users, contains links to Wikipedia links in order to save them. For example, an application provides some information about a common element, and if the user is interested in learning about this element, I provided a Wiki link for each element. The user can click on it and access the wiki web page without leaving the application.

Each wiki page displays a search box at the top, and the user can obviously enter whatever they want there and access any material provided by Wikipedia. Therefore, I was asked to raise the rating to 17 +.

My question is: is there a way to suppress the search box on Wikipedia? Or do something in the iOS application so that the user does not leave the original page?

If none of these are possible, I suggest that I could extract and paste the appropriate content from Wikipedia (with proper attribution). It would be too much effort, static (if not updated periodically) and inflate an application with tens of MB of data.

Note. I found this answer that points to the github library to get and display the wiki page, but it still seems like the user can expose arbitrary Wiki content.

Answer 1

To suppress the search box, something along these lines might work to fit into the delegate of your UIWebView :

 -(void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView { NSString *js = "document.getElementById('mw-mf-search').style.display='none';"; [webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:js]; } 

mw-mf-search is the id attribute of the search box in m.wikipedia.org .

To avoid exiting the page, you should implement webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest:navigationType: and return YES only for resources such as images and sites that you want to allow.