Enable/Disable Advertiser Tracking for Meta in ionic capacitor application?

Question

I was trying to enable Advertiser Tracking using capacitor-community facebook-login plugin.i found a method for enabling ( i guess ) in documentation of facebook-login plugin but there is no documentation for how to use it and demo project given also not mentioning about apis present in given plugin.

method defined in documentation:

setAdvertiserTrackingEnabled(...)

but when I try to use it I am getting the error

property 'setAdvertiserTrackingEnabled' does not exist on type 'FacebookLoginPlugin'.ts(2339)

my code so far

async enableAdvertiserTracking(){
    await FacebookLogin.setAdvertiserTrackingEnabled({ enabled: true; })
}

Answer 1

The method is available in latest version ( starting from 5.0.0 ) of @capacitor-community/facebook-login.

may be you are using older version of the same plugin.you should call this method after requesting tracking permission from user in ios.

for that purpose you can use capacitor-plugin-app-tracking-transparency.as mentioned below

let response = await AppTrackingTransparency.getStatus();
if (response.status === 'notDetermined') {
  // Ask user consent to track
  response = await AppTrackingTransparency.requestPermission();
}

// set based on user consent

if(response.status === 'authorized'){
  await FacebookLogin.setAdvertiserTrackingEnabled({ enabled: true; })
} else {
  await FacebookLogin.setAdvertiserTrackingEnabled({ enabled: false; })
}

if you are using capacitor version below 5 you won't be able to use setAdvertiserTrackingEnabled from @cacpacitor-community/facebook-login.

if your are on capacitor 4 or less you can use @captive/capacitor-facebook-analytics version 1.0.0 to acheive same.in that case you have to change last few lines as below

if(response.status === 'authorized'){
  FacebookAnalytics.enableAdvertiserTracking()
} else {
  FacebookAnalytics.disableAdvertiserTracking()
}

Answer 2

you can use cordova facebook-connect plugin although it bit old.it has a method to enable advertiser tracking. https://www.npmjs.com/package/cordova-plugin-facebook-connect#facebook-sdk