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I am currently trying to build a prototype parental control app using the ScreenTime API.
I was just wondering if I needed to create a separate parent and child app?
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it is possible to get app monthly activity in swift 5?
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Hi,
we are facing issues with the FamilyActivityPicker.
I have 2 devices in the same family, one successfully authorised as child device using AuthorizationCenter.shared.requestAuthorization(for: .child), the other one is used as parent device.
When I invoke FamilyActivityPicker on the children's device it works as expected but when invoked on the parent's device it only shows list of categories but not a single app. This behavior doesn't occur every time, on some devices it sometime works as it should.
It's very odd and I can't find any reason why it is happening. I would appreciate any tips.
Tested on app built with Xcode 15.3 an run on iOS 17.4.1 and iOS 16.7.2
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I am building an app that manages ScreenTime and I would like to persist the tokens of which apps are frequently limited to CoreData locally. I attempted to do so by converting to a string but was unable to find a way to initialize an ActivityCategoryToken with a string.
Is this possible? Am I going about it the wrong way?
Thanks.
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I have an app on App Store and some users started seeing this bug when the app requests for Screen Time API usage. The error is "The data couldn't be read because it isn't in the correct format". But it works still for most users and I can't reproduce it on my device.
Checking the competitors, some of them shows this error when requesting for ScreenTime usage: "An unknown error occurred: NSCocoaErrorDomain, 4864)
Has anyone experienced this?
Thank you!
My code below requesting screen time authorization
.onAppear {
Task {
do {
try await center.requestAuthorization(for: .individual)
if center.authorizationStatus == .approved {
self.checkApproved()
} else {
state = .denied
}
} catch let error {
showingAlert = true
errorTitle = error.localizedDescription
state = .denied
}
}
}
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I am developing a parental control app using Flutter and platform channels to integrate with the Screen Time API on iOS. The app has two interfaces - one for the parent and one for the child. I have set up Family Sharing correctly and installed the app on both the parent's and child's devices. However, I am encountering some issues with the Family Activity Selection feature.
It's worth noting that I am a Flutter developer with limited knowledge of Swift and iOS development, so if my issues stem from a mistake I made, please forgive me.
The problems I am facing are as follows:
When calling the family activity selection, the list of apps shown in the apps sheet is from the parent's device, and no apps from the child's device are displayed. I have double-checked that Family Sharing and other necessary configurations are set up correctly, including the family control capability.
Even if I select apps on the parent's device, the selected apps are not returned in the result. The returned array is empty. Additionally, there is no close or done button on the sheet, and drag-to-dismiss is not working either. This might be an issue with the way I have written the code (most of the native code was generated by AI assistants like Claude and GPT, as I am a Flutter developer with limited knowledge of Swift and iOS development).
I have tested other parental control apps that use the Screen Time API and observed the same issue, where the parent's apps are shown on the parent's device instead of the child's apps.
For more context, I have provided the relevant code snippet below:
import Flutter
import FamilyControls
import ManagedSettings
import SwiftUI
class FamilyActivityHandler: NSObject, FlutterPlugin {
// ...
private func openFamilyActivityPicker(result: @escaping FlutterResult) {
let store = ManagedSettingsStore()
let selection = FamilyActivitySelection()
// Adjusting for UIWindowScene for iOS 15 and later
guard let windowScene = UIApplication.shared.connectedScenes.first as? UIWindowScene,
let window = windowScene.windows.first else {
result(FlutterError(code: "NO_WINDOW_SCENE", message: "No window scene found", details: nil))
return
}
let viewController = UIHostingController(rootView: FamilyActivityPicker(selection: .constant(selection)))
viewController.modalPresentationStyle = .formSheet
window.rootViewController?.present(viewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
DispatchQueue.main.async {
let applications = selection.applicationTokens
let categories = selection.categoryTokens
let webDomains = selection.webDomainTokens
store.shield.applications = applications.isEmpty ? nil : applications
store.shield.applicationCategories = ShieldSettings.ActivityCategoryPolicy.specific(categories, except: Set())
store.shield.webDomains = webDomains
// Custom method to generate descriptive strings for tokens
let applicationsDescription = applications.map { token in
// Implement a custom description method or use an identifier property
"\(token)"
}
let categoriesDescription = categories.map { token in
// Implement a custom description method or use an identifier property
"\(token)"
}
let webDomainsDescription = webDomains.map { token in
// Implement a custom description method or use an identifier property
"\(token)"
}
let resultDict: [String: Any] = [
"applications": applicationsDescription,
"categories": categoriesDescription,
"webDomains": webDomainsDescription
]
result(resultDict)
}
}
}
I would greatly appreciate any guidance or insights from the community on how to resolve these issues and properly implement the Family Activity Selection feature using the Screen Time API in a Flutter app with platform channels.
Thank you in advance for your help!
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I am developing a parental control app using Flutter and platform channels to integrate with the Screen Time API on iOS. The app has two interfaces - one for the parent and one for the child. I have set up Family Sharing correctly and installed the app on both the parent's and child's devices. However, I am encountering some issues with the Family Activity Selection feature.
It's worth noting that I am a Flutter developer with limited knowledge of Swift and iOS development, so if my issues stem from a mistake I made, please forgive me.
The problems I am facing are as follows:
When calling the family activity selection, the list of apps shown in the apps sheet is from the parent's device, and no apps from the child's device are displayed. I have double-checked that Family Sharing and other necessary configurations are set up correctly, including the family control capability.
Even if I select apps on the parent's device, the selected apps are not returned in the result. The returned array is empty. Additionally, there is no close or done button on the sheet, and drag-to-dismiss is not working either. This might be an issue with the way I have written the code (most of the native code was generated by AI assistants like Claude and GPT, as I am a Flutter developer with limited knowledge of Swift and iOS development).
I have tested other parental control apps that use the Screen Time API and observed the same issue, where the parent's apps are shown on the parent's device instead of the child's apps.
For more context, I have provided the relevant code snippet below:
import Flutter
import FamilyControls
import ManagedSettings
import SwiftUI
class FamilyActivityHandler: NSObject, FlutterPlugin {
// ...
private func openFamilyActivityPicker(result: @escaping FlutterResult) {
let store = ManagedSettingsStore()
let selection = FamilyActivitySelection()
// Adjusting for UIWindowScene for iOS 15 and later
guard let windowScene = UIApplication.shared.connectedScenes.first as? UIWindowScene,
let window = windowScene.windows.first else {
result(FlutterError(code: "NO_WINDOW_SCENE", message: "No window scene found", details: nil))
return
}
let viewController = UIHostingController(rootView: FamilyActivityPicker(selection: .constant(selection)))
viewController.modalPresentationStyle = .formSheet
window.rootViewController?.present(viewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
DispatchQueue.main.async {
let applications = selection.applicationTokens
let categories = selection.categoryTokens
let webDomains = selection.webDomainTokens
store.shield.applications = applications.isEmpty ? nil : applications
store.shield.applicationCategories = ShieldSettings.ActivityCategoryPolicy.specific(categories, except: Set())
store.shield.webDomains = webDomains
// Custom method to generate descriptive strings for tokens
let applicationsDescription = applications.map { token in
// Implement a custom description method or use an identifier property
"\(token)"
}
let categoriesDescription = categories.map { token in
// Implement a custom description method or use an identifier property
"\(token)"
}
let webDomainsDescription = webDomains.map { token in
// Implement a custom description method or use an identifier property
"\(token)"
}
let resultDict: [String: Any] = [
"applications": applicationsDescription,
"categories": categoriesDescription,
"webDomains": webDomainsDescription
]
result(resultDict)
}
}
}
I would greatly appreciate any guidance or insights from the community on how to resolve these issues and properly implement the Family Activity Selection feature using the Screen Time API in a Flutter app with platform channels.
Thank you in advance for your help!
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Update 1: Seems like app limits do work, but they don't account for time spent already in the day (only counts it since it first was scheduled? - but just guessing). This seems to be the change in behavior that is making it seem like broken.
I have an app that uses individual FamilyControls / Screen Time authorization. I am still investigating but reporting ASAP. Will add feedback and more later.
I am not sure what's going on, but so far:
App limits generally work fine throughout the day(?)
At around 9 PM they stop working if I clear ManagedSettingStore/DeviceActivityCenter (it might be unrelated to the time, but just clearing, but this is just what I know so far)
I tried setting app limits from Apple's Setting app (so I could see if it's not just my app, and that system could have issues) and it crashes. The whole Settings app freezes and then crashes. (edit: after some freezing, including in the app picker, I was able to set a limit and it worked...did notice some odd behavior where 1 minute break did not work, but selecting 15 minute break did work)
going to also update: FB13688616
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Hello, I am working on a screen time manager that can block certain apps. I want this to work by allowing a certain number of 5-minute sessions per day. For each app the user selects, I would like to store the number of sessions remaining for that app in a dictionary. Currently, I am storing them in a dictionary of type <AppToken: Int>. However, I would like to store this dictionary to UserDefaults, and it doesn't seem like it is possible to store the type AppToken to UserDefaults. I was wondering how I could go about storing the AppTokenas a String and maybe saving to UserDefaults as a <String: Int> instead? Thanks.
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I've heard family controls request forms can take up to weeks and even months...
I'm currently developing an app that requires the main target and also the app extension to both use Family Controls. Does this mean I need to request forms for both app bundles separately or just the main app?
If I have to wait weeks or even months for both then that's a bit painful tbh. Is there a way to distribute to testflight without getting approved for the family controls entitlement? Thanks
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I am currently debugging an issue with DeviceActivityMonitor where the threshold is reached even though the target app (e.g. Instagram) is not being used actively.
I noticed that the device with the unexpected behavior had the instagram.com website opened in the Safari web browser (among hundreds of other tabs).
That tab was not actively used either (not in foreground, Safari app neither used).
However, I was wondering if it can happen that this website is contributing towards the threshold as well even though it is in background and not used?
Otherwise I cannot explain myself this strange behavior.
Hi, I use ScreenTime API for proving feature of hiding other installed apps in the iOS device.
Specifically I set applications I want to hide to this property of ManagedSettingsStore.application.blockedApplications. Documentation to this propery says
The system hides blocked applications and prevents the user from launching them.
There is no any limitations or deprecation labels, api available starting iOS 15.
My app is in the AppStore and works good, but I received reject for app update saying:
The app uses public APIs in an unapproved manner, which does not comply with guideline 2.5.1. Specifically, your app still uses Screentime API to hide apps from user. Since there is no accurate way of predicting how an API may be modified and what effects those modifications may have, unapproved uses of public APIs in apps is not allowed.
This sounds odd to me as feature is documented, not marked as deprecated and confirmed on forum by Apple Engineer it’s available for developers. Additionally I can’t find any public information about “unapproved uses of public APIs” that reviewer refers to.
So there are literally no reason to reject my app as feature is documented and I use it as it's prescribed. The only public requirement for the developers found in Apple Review Guidelines and Apple Developer Program License Agreement is to use public API, there is no term "unapproved uses of public APIs".
After long conversation with reviewer I submitted appeal but review board didn't provide any clarity and declines my appeal with exactly the same response without clarifying situation and referring to 2.5.1 that is actually not applicable.
Looking forward to finding any useful information, experiences from other developers, or clarifications from Apple Engineers.
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currently when I try to set several schedules to the same activity the latest schedule I set is the only one
I understand I can have only 1 schedule for activity. ?
I thought about setting a new schedule on the intervalDidEnd but, I get no interval did start if the current time is in the middle of the interval I set
For example, now it is 15:00, and my previous interval started at 14:00 and ends at 16:00 but the user sets a new interval from 14:30 - 16:40
I call the deviceActivityCenter.stopMonitoring([someActivityName]) and get noIntervalDidEnd event
Then I set the new interval successfully with deviceActivityCenter.startMonitoring(someActivityName, during: deviceActivitySchedule)
and get no intervalDidStartEvent
So how can I achieve several intervals?
If I had gotten the events of the start and end it would be possible
Thanks for the help
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We persist ApplicationTokens in a storage container that ShieldConfigurationExtension has access to. In rare, cases all the ApplicationTokens for a user seem to change.
We know this because the Application parameter passed into configuration(shielding application: Application) -> ShieldConfiguration function has a Token that does not match (using == ) any of the ones we are persisting in storage.
Interestingly, the persisted ones still work, so I don't believe storage has gotten corrupted or anything. We can use them to add or remove shields, we can use them to display labels of the apps they represent, etc. But they don’t match what’s passed into the ShieldConfiguration extension. If the user goes into the FamilyPicker at this point and selects an app of a token that we are already persisting, the FamilyPickerSelection will have a token matching the new one that is passed into ShieldConfigurationExtension, not the one we persisted when they last selected that app.
This leads me to believe the tokens are updated/rotated in some cases. When and why does this happen, and how can we handle it gracefully?
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As per our code, we have the apps to be shielded whenever the threshold is reached. According to this use-case, our code in DeviceActivityExtension looks something like:
override func eventDidReachThreshold(_ event: DeviceActivityEvent.Name, activity: DeviceActivityName) {
super.eventDidReachThreshold(event, activity: activity)
defaults?.setValue(event.rawValue, forKey: "appLimitEventName")
defaults?.setValue(true, forKey: "appLimitReached")
defaults?.synchronize()
// using darwinNotificationCenter to trigger callback in the application
let darwinNotificationCenter = DarwinNotificationsManager.sharedInstance()
darwinNotificationCenter.postNotification(withName: "nextAppLimitInitiated")
// using Notifications to debug since print doesn't work
scheduleNotification(with: "interval threshold reached")
}
And in our application, we have the shielding logic in place,
init() {
let darwinNotificationCenter = DarwinNotificationsManager.sharedInstance()
darwinNotificationCenter.register(forNotificationName: "nextAppLimitInitiated"){
print("callback received")
let appLimitReached = self.defaults?.bool(forKey: "appLimitReached")
let appLimitEventName = self.defaults?.string(forKey: "appLimitEventName")
if appLimitReached ?? false, appLimitEventName != "" {
// this sends the notification when callback is received
self.scheduleNotification(with: "init start")
self.defaults?.setValue(false, forKey: "appLimitReached")
guard var dataArray = self.defaults?.array(forKey: "appLimitdataArray"), !dataArray.isEmpty else {
return
}
let appLimitData = dataArray.first as! NSDictionary
let appLimitKey = appLimitData["appLimitId"] as! String
let data = self.getSchedule(key: appLimitEventName ?? "")
if let appTokens = data?.applicationTokens {
for token in appTokens {
if !self.applicationTokens.contains(appTokens) {
self.applicationTokens.insert(token)
}
}
}
self.store.shield.applications = self.applicationTokens
self.store.shield.applicationCategories = ShieldSettings.ActivityCategoryPolicy.specific(self.categoryTokens, except: Set())
dataArray.removeFirst()
//dataArray.append(appLimitData)
self.defaults?.set(dataArray, forKey: "appLimitdataArray")
self.initiateMonitoring(initiateAgain: true)
self.scheduleNotification(with: "init end")
}
}
}
This works as expected for multiple App Limits but only when the device is connected to the Xcode. If we disconnect the device from Xcode/ stop application from Xcode/ try in release mode, the callback is not received from extension to the app/init block.
When the device is connected to Xcode, if the apps hit the threshold, they are shielded automatically. But if the device is disconnected/ app is in release mode, the apps are not shielded automatically even after the threshold is reached. It is shielded later only after opening our app once.
Please let me know if I'm doing anything wrong in receiving callback or in my shielding logic. If I need to place the shielding logic in the extension, please tell me how I can handle multiple appTokens.
I am trying to understand how to approach 'x minute' pauses for a DeviceActivitySchedule.
For instance, I would like to let the user pause for 5 minutes from an active schedule (meaning un-shielding the apps and re-applying the shield after the 5 min has passed).
The only way that came to my mind was calling the following:
Calling .startMonitoring to start monitoring a new event with the same apps starting .now and ending .now + 5 minutes;
Calling in the intervalDidStart, store.shield.applications.subtract(apps) so that the apps are removed from the shield.
Calling in the intervalDidEnd, store.shield.applications = apps so that the apps are now shielded again.
The problem is that, from the Apple Developer Documentation:
The minimum interval length for monitoring device activity is fifteen minutes.
So the minimum pause I could offer to the user would be 15 minutes.
And that tells me this approach is most likely wrong, because all other Screen Time apps, like Opal, Jomo, AppBlock offer also 5 min pause.
Does anyone know / can think of a different and better approach?
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I am relatively new to swift, and working on an app blocker using flutter and swift. In my Xcode runner file, I used File > New > Target > ShieldConfigurationExtension and File > New > Target > ShieldActionExtension to create the extensions with all the necessary Info.plist values. However, when I try to build, I am presented with this error message:
Error (Xcode): Cycle inside Runner; building could produce unreliable results.
Cycle details:
→ Target 'Runner': CodeSign /Users/arshgupta/Documents/pledge-1/build/ios/Debug-iphoneos/Runner.app
○ That command depends on command in Target 'Runner': script phase “[CP] Copy Pods Resources”
○ That command depends on command in Target 'Runner': script phase “Thin Binary”
○ Target 'Runner' has process command with output '/Users/arshgupta/Documents/pledge-1/build/ios/Debug-iphoneos/Runner.app/Info.plist'
○ Target 'Runner' has copy command from '/Users/arshgupta/Documents/pledge-1/build/ios/Debug-iphoneos/shieldAction.appex' to '/Users/arshgupta/Documents/pledge-1/build/ios/Debug-iphoneos/Runner.app/PlugIns/shieldAction.appex'
2
Raw dependency cycle trace:
target: ->
node: <all> ->
command: <all> ->
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node: /Users/arshgupta/Documents/pledge-1/build/ios/Debug-iphoneos/Runner.app/GoogleSignIn.bundle/ ->
directoryTreeSignature: [ ->
directoryContents: /Users/arshgupta/Documents/pledge-1/build/ios/Debug-iphoneos/Runner.app/GoogleSignIn.bundle ->
CYCLE POINT ->
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node: /Users/arshgupta/Documents/pledge-1/build/ios/Debug-iphoneos/Runner.app/Info.plist/ ->
directoryTreeSignature: R ->
directoryContents: /Users/arshgupta/Documents/pledge-1/build/ios/Debug-iphoneos/Runner.app/Info.plist ->
node: /Users/arshgupta/Documents/pledge-1/build/ios/Debug-iphoneos/Runner.app/Info.plist ->
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node: /Users/arshgupta/Documents/pledge-1/build/ios/Debug-iphoneos/Runner.app/PlugIns/shieldAction.appex ->
command: P0:target-Runner-18c1723432283e0cc55f10a6dcfd9e0288a783a885d8b0b3beb2e9f90bde3f49-:Debug:Copy /Users/arshgupta/Documents/pledge-1/build/ios/Debug-iphoneos/Runner.app/PlugIns/shieldAction.appex /Users/arshgupta/Documents/pledge-1/build/ios/Debug-iphoneos/shieldAction.appex ->
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command: P0:::Gate target-Runner-18c1723432283e0cc55f10a6dcfd9e0288a783a885d8b0b3beb2e9f90bde3f49--fused-phase5--cp--copy-pods-resources ->
node: /Users/arshgupta/Documents/pledge-1/build/ios/Debug-iphoneos/Runner.app/GoogleSignIn.bundle
What can I do to fix this?
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I have two repeating DeviceActivitySchedules running in my app and noticed a super strange behavior:
whenever I modify Screen Time API permission settings (granting an additional app permission, or removing permission for a different app (completely different unrelated screen time apps from App Store)) all my DeviceActivitySchedules are cancelled and the intervalDidEnd callbacks are called
my permission is not modified in this scenario
this is a super strange and unexpected behavior
is anyone able to reproduce this?
for me this happens 100% of the times I do this
any known workarounds?
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Hello,
I am using a DeviceActivityEvent to limit access to an app after the user has spent x minutes on it.
Sometimes it can happen that a DeviceActivitySchedule spans from 11:55pm - 12:25am (just an example).
In these cases, I have noticed, the DeviceActivityMonitorExtension’s eventDidReachThreshold is not called after the user has reached the threshold time interval in the observed app.
I assume this is because we have transitioned over midnight and something weird happens to the DeviceActivitySchedule.
I’ve tried adding the day components to the DeviceActivitySchedule as well, but then it fails completely.
Any advice how to handle this?
I could, of course, create two separate DeviceActivitySchedules: one for before midnight, and one for after. But depending on the user’s real app usage that could lead to slightly different (and unexpected) behavior.
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Hi there,
In rare cases (about 0.2% of the time?), I'm seeing calls to startMonitoring on an instance of DeviceActivityCenter throw an error with localizedDescription "couldn’t communicate with a helper application."
I am certain I am passing valid parameters to the startMonitoring call because sometimes a naive retry after a few seconds succeeds. Similarly, I am certain that FamilyControls permissions have been granted by the user.
Was hoping to get more color from the systems team on what some causes of this error are and if it is avoidable by the programmer.
wick_mma.
