I've begged them for this in bug reports 3 or 4 iOS versions ago, I've written Tim Cook, (and Steve Jobs) for this.I discussed ways I am using past and current Apple tech, UI and frameworks to work around trying to keep my apps at least usable, and instead of Apple helping, those work arounds disappear in the next update of iOS/OSX, this has happened 3 times... the last time, I didn't even think it was even close to something Apple didn't want apps to do, nor would any normal human, yet the next version of iOS/OSX, I could not, nor can anyone, any longer use this extremely useful method... that is just not right.... there just is no reason why it should have disappeared, not battery, not security, not any reason. (and why it was such a big surprise when an Apple employee said: you/your app should not be able to do such and such) I am going to leave that as vage as it sounds, for fear of losing something else.I've grown to use bug reports sparingly, and not at all, twice bitten three times shy, and I'
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App & System Services
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Core OS
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