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I highly doubt this will happen. There are a ton of apps that use things like Cordova or Capacitor (usually for cross-platform purposes).

What I could see them doing is making apps declare URLs that they need access to. Basically, you get full functionality on declared URLs, but if you are just using WebView for a "generic" in-app browser you lose the ability to inspect random pages.



> What I could see them doing is making apps declare URLs that they need access to. Basically, you get full functionality on declared URLs, but if you are just using WebView for a "generic" in-app browser you lose the ability to inspect random pages.

This is exactly what I'm expecting, because that's how they've handled other similar restrictions. Becoming a full on web browser with the iOS 14 web browser entitlement will probably be the only way to not be bound to a list of URLs, and they don't hand that entitlement out willy nilly.


The mechanism you are describing is already implemented and advertised: https://webkit.org/blog/10882/app-bound-domains/

Apple „just“ need to enforce it.


Couldn't you just proxy everything through a host you own?




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