// DevOps & Deployment
App Privacy Manifest Consistency Gate
Reconcile SDK, required-reason API, data-use, privacy-manifest, and questionnaire evidence before an App Store release.
What problem does App Privacy Manifest Consistency Gate solve?
An app can ship a PrivacyInfo manifest that looks complete while its SDK inventory, required-reason API evidence, collected-data declarations, and App Store questionnaire disagree.
Use it to
- Review a release before App Store submission
- Catch SDK-required API categories absent from the app manifest
- Compare collected-data declarations with the questionnaire snapshot
- Keep owner-only privacy judgments unresolved instead of guessed
What it returns
- Cross-file privacy findings CSV
- JSON owner-submission gate with trust boundary
- Review memo for developer and privacy owner
- Counts for SDK, API usage, and declared data types
A representative input and result
input An ads SDK has no shipped manifest, requires disk-space APIs, collects device identifiers, and the saved questionnaire says tracking while the app manifest says no tracking.
result Gate: BLOCK. Missing SDK manifest, undeclared API category, unapproved reason, data-type mismatch, tracking conflict, and unresolved identity-linkage review.
Access and approval boundaries
- Read access to user-supplied local JSON and CSV evidence files.
- Write access only to the selected local audit output directory.
- No browser, network, credential, account, or environment-variable access is required.
Known limitations
- The tool uses normalized evidence and does not scan compiled binaries or arbitrary source trees.
- The approved-reason policy must be refreshed against current Apple documentation by the owner.
- A consistent result does not guarantee App Store acceptance or legal compliance.
Questions
Does it submit to App Store Connect?
No. It creates a local owner-review gate.
Does it scan an IPA?
No. Version 1 uses normalized release evidence.
Does it choose approved reasons?
No. It checks against the supplied policy and never invents a reason.
Does it answer linked-to-identity questions?
No. It requires a recorded owner review.
Will a ready result guarantee approval?
No. Apple may apply other or updated requirements.
What makes it different from a broad rejection scanner?
It focuses on cross-file privacy claim consistency and explicit trust boundaries.
App Privacy Manifest Consistency Gate keeps proof and approval boundaries visible.
The listing includes the tested package, realistic samples, declared permissions, and known limitations.
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