SKStoreReviewController is deprecated in iOS 18, and replacement is not accesible in MAUI.

[PureWeen]

Moved from dotnet/maui#25169

Description

Hello,

with iOS 18 it seems that Apple deprecated SKStoreReviewController. Now every plugin and call made from SKStoreReviewController are not working. There is a replacement with AppStore.requestReview(in: scene). But from MAUI it is inaccessible.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/appstore/3954432-requestreview/

Steps to Reproduce

Create an application
on ios18 invoke

if (UIApplication
                            .SharedApplication?
                            .ConnectedScenes?
                            .ToArray<UIScene>()?
                            .FirstOrDefault(x => x.ActivationState == UISceneActivationState.ForegroundActive) is UIWindowScene windowScene)
                    {
                        SKStoreReviewController.RequestReview(windowScene);
                        return Task.CompletedTask;
                    }

see that application hangs.

same code on iOS 17.5 works, create a review popup or just passes quietly.

Link to public reproduction project repository

No response

Version with bug

8.0.91 SR9.1

Is this a regression from previous behavior?

No, this is something new

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

iOS

Affected platform versions

iOS 18+

Did you find any workaround?

No

Relevant log output

No response

[rolfbjarne]

AppStore.RequestReview looks like a really simple API, so we might be able to bind it manually.

I'll see what I can do.

[rolfbjarne]

We're binding this as an experimental API named StoreKit.AppStore.RequestReview(UIWindowScene).

[MerSpyro]

@rolfbjarne @PureWeen
Could you provide information when and where this fix will be available? Im not too sure where I'd go to look for this, in .net release, MAUI release or somewhere else?

@rolfbjarne thanks for this extremely swift binding of new API!

[rolfbjarne]

@rolfbjarne @PureWeen Could you provide information when and where this fix will be available? Im not too sure where I'd go to look for this, in .net release, MAUI release or somewhere else?

This will be in an update to the iOS workload, most likely when we add support for Xcode 16.1 (which will probably happen soon after .NET 9 has been released, although this depends a bit on when exactly Apple makes Xcode 16.1 stable).

[tipa]

Can the same be considered for the reloadAllTimelines() method?
I am currently using this workaround (in combination with an app extension written in Swift) but it adds quite a bit of boilerplate to my projects.

[rolfbjarne]

Can the same be considered for the reloadAllTimelines() method? I am currently using this workaround (in combination with an app extension written in Swift) but it adds quite a bit of boilerplate to my projects.

I filed a suggestion for this: #21466