DeviceActivityMonitor

I did a lot of researches, but cannot understand why methods inside DeviceActivityMonitor extension are not calling. What I've seen related to this question and already checked: Do you starting monitoring for schedules? Yes, I do by calling center.startMonitoring() as it has been explained on WWDC2021-10123. I was searching an issue while creating the extension. Walk through steps that are described here. Everything looks good for me. Did you add Family Control Capability to extension's target? Yes, I did. Is your device authorized with FamilyControls? Yes. The only doubt I have here that I'm authorising FamilyControls for .individual . But as I've asked previously, it shouldn’t be a reason. Task { do { guard #available(iOS 16.0, *) else { // Fallback on earlier versions return } try await AuthorizationCenter.shared.requestAuthorization(for: .individual) switch AuthorizationCenter.shared.authorizationStatus { case .notDetermined: print(not determined) case .denied: print(denied) case .approved: print

I have followed the two videos about Screen time API in wwdc 21 and 22. Now i want to sheild some apps during sleeping, but I encounter some problems. Problem I faced I write my monitor and override intervalDidStart and intervalDidEnd . Here is a simplified version class Mymonitor: DeviceActivityMonitor { let store = ManagedSettingsStore() override func intervalDidStart(for activity: DeviceActivityName) { super.intervalDidStart(for: activity) store.shield.applications = selection.applicationToken } then I use deviceActivityCenter to start monitor func StartSleep (_ startTime : DateComponents) { let schedule = DeviceActivitySchedule(intervalStart: startTime, intervalEnd: DateComponents(hour: 4, minute: 0), repeats: true ) let center = DeviceActivityCenter() center.stopMonitoring([.daily]) try! center.startMonitoring(.daily, during: schedule) } However, when I use StartSleep. The applications is not shielded. I have noticed that I haven't use Mymonitor in any place. In the demo Code, it seems i just ne

I am having a lot of trouble reliably making network requests from the DeviceActivityMonitor extension. In the app extension, when intervalDidEnd is called by the system, I add some data to the app's local CoreData store and sync that with the server. I use URLSession dataTask to make a POST request to my server, with URLSessionConfiguration.sharedContainerIdentifier set to my App Group's shared identifier. It is extremely rare that my server receives this request, although sometimes (rarely) it does. I've tried things like wrapping the task in performExpiringActivity or using URLSessionConfiguration.background suspecting that this task needs to run in the background, but none of it seems to work. What I suspect is happening is that the App Extension gets cancelled before the request is able to be invoked. Looking at the console logs, sometimes the work stops before the request is called, sometimes during the request task, and sometimes even before I am able to update my local data store. It's been v

I've downloaded another screen time app that uses DeviceActivityMonitor, and once that app starts monitoring during an active monitoring schedule on my app - my app's monitoring schedule immediately ends. Is this expected behavior? Can't find this in any of the docs, but are two separate apps allowed to monitor activities during an overlapping schedule?

Using ManagedSettings I'm able to shield all categories of applications using ActivityCategoryPolicy.all , without the user using picking categories with the FamilyActivityPicker. I would like to create a DeviceActivityMonitor which monitors events for all (or a specific) categories of apps, without the user needing to interact with the FamilyActivityPicker. Is this possible? And an extra question: is there no way to pick a specific category to shield? Just like we are able to do with ActivityCategoryPolicy.all, instead something like: ActivityCategoryPolicy.games

It seems like private browsing is undetectable with DeviceActivityMonitor for two reasons: Specific web domains do not cause the monitoring threshold callback functions to fire, due to the privacy setting Safari is not able to be monitored as an app or a category. It doesn't appear in the FamilyActivityPicker, and it doesn't appear to belong to any Screen Time category when viewing Safari's information in Screen Time Settings Is there any way to monitor device activity during private browsing? If not, that seems like a big problem for apps that allow parents to set device activity limits for their kids.

I want to remove shield restrictions for apps. Following the WWDC21 video, I declare ManagedSettingsStore and trying to reset restrictions: class MyDeviceActivityMonitor: DeviceActivityMonitor { let store = ManagedSettingsStore() public override func intervalDidEnd(for activity: DeviceActivityName) { super.intervalDidEnd(for: activity) store.shield.applications = nil } } Will this string has impact on the app store.shield.applications = nil? Because now, while testing it seems that I'm dealing with two different stores. Or again it is doesn’t synced by default and let store = ManagedSettingsStore() will create store which will be different than store on which the app is relays on? Thank you!

I've asked several questions about DeviceActivity performance issues where the answers have cited limitations to the lifecycle of the DeviceActivity App Extensions. For example: Question about DeviceActivityReport lag and performance issues responded letting me know that my extension may be exceeding its memory limit of 100MB and subsequently getting terminated by the system. Question about async tasks in DeviceActivityMonitor responded letting me know that the monitor extensions lifecycle ends and is terminated by the system once all synchronous functions return, so it has no async support. I couldn't find either of these facts documented anywhere, and the DeviceActivity docs mention very little about how the extensions actually work. In general, it seems like these app extensions are basically a black box. Is there any additional comprehensive documentation about the true lifecycle of the app extensions, their limitations, and how apps should handle error cases (like the system terminating the app

I'm wondering if we able to send Local Push Notifications from DeviceActivityMonitor extension... If we have to use AppGroups to pass info between an app and the extension, could we post notification though UNNotificationRequest? I also tried to push data through NotificationCenter, also doesn’t work. Can we do so, or did something wrong? Should these cases that I described above work from iOS 16 and above or not? Thank you!