Permission to bulk operate on other apps

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I would like to create an application that let's a user bulk operate on apps. Some features:

Bulk operations: 
 - delete
 - organize by color (some like organizing their screens by color)
 - organize by type (education, reading, games, etc.)
 - organize apps which users want to hide
 - organize last access time
 - bulk "offload apps" (removing the app, saving the data)

I am struggling to find, however, any notion of enabling permissions for this in an apple app. The permission I am looking for is akin to a user allowing an app to delete (duplicate) photos/videos off of their device. The area I think it would be is here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/entitlements

If this functionality exists, can I please be directed to the documentation for this?

Many thanks!

Best, Daniel Connelly

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Answer 1

There is no documented API for any of that functionality. That would go way, way, way outside your app sandbox. It seems that 3rd party app management is a thing on Android, but it’s not a thing on iOS.

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Scott J

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Thanks @Scott_J for confirming. I think it would be really nice if Apple were to build this into their OS or let developers build this. I don't think that moving apps around on a homescreen is a terribly unsafe thing to do (though deleting would potentially be, but that is why one wouuld get permission?). Anyways, I'm a newbie when it comes to this stuff, so hopefully we can get this feature one way or another.

Thanks again!

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You can post a FeedBack assistant (bug report) asking for enhancement.

But I do think you can get no satisfaction 😉.

As Scott J said, that would go against a long time policy to forbid an app to play with other apps or with system behaviour (for instance it is not possible to change the functions of buttons).

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Claude31

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Thanks @Claude31! I will do that.

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