FamilyActivitySelection | Screen Time API features iOS 16

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Roman_Romanenko-Digicode OP
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How to store at one time more than one app while selection from FamilyActivityPicker?

.familyActivityPicker(
    isPresented: $isDiscouragedPresented,
    selection: $model.selectionToDiscourage
)

The code above save only one token. If user select more than one app the FamilyActivitySelection.applicationTokens becomes empty [], but if select only one app, applicationTokens will contain one token from selected app.

Answered by DTS Engineer in 743572022

I'm not sure exactly what is happening here, but if you choose all the apps in one category, then the behavior I've seen is that you get a selection for the category, but no selection for the apps in that category.

There's a property that seems to control this:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/familycontrols/familyactivityselection/init(includeentirecategory:)

Maybe you should set that to true when creating your FamilyActivitySelection?

If you're seeing surprising FamilyActivitySelection results when selecting more than 1 (but not all) of the apps in a category, then I recommend you file a bug report via Feedback Assistant and reply here with the feedback number.

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KseniaUstenko OP

Hi, I have the same question. Thanks in advance for the answer!
Roman_Romanenko-Digicode OP

Strange behaviour of selecting multiple apps or category...

  • for some category (Productivity) I'm able to block all apps
  • for other category (Entertainment) when I select whole category, there are some apps blocked and some not
  • for third category (Social) if select all apps, none of them will be blocked

Why it's happening?

DTS Engineer OP
Apple
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I'm not sure exactly what is happening here, but if you choose all the apps in one category, then the behavior I've seen is that you get a selection for the category, but no selection for the apps in that category.

There's a property that seems to control this:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/familycontrols/familyactivityselection/init(includeentirecategory:)

Maybe you should set that to true when creating your FamilyActivitySelection?

If you're seeing surprising FamilyActivitySelection results when selecting more than 1 (but not all) of the apps in a category, then I recommend you file a bug report via Feedback Assistant and reply here with the feedback number.
Roman_Romanenko-Digicode OP

Despite the link is broken, it helped. Thank you!