DeviceActivityEvent with includesPastActivity = false, sometimes does not trigger callback

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Created Sep ’24

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Sometimes when I schedule a DeviceActivityEvent with the includesPastActivity property set to false, the event is never triggered. I tried with thresholds of 20 seconds and 1 minute and both did not work.

I submitted feedback with more details FB15220094.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue ? or does anyone know about a fix ?

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Maximillian-Dev OP

Nov ’24

Hey, I'm experiencing similar issues with inconsistencies when includesPastActivity is false, the only (simple) solution I came up with was a version check, since then it works for above iOS 17.4 at least

  func activityEvent(_ key: String, threshold: DateComponents? = nil) -> DeviceActivityEvent {
    loadSelection(for: key)
    let applications = selectionToRestrict
 
    if #available(iOS 17.4, *) {
      return DeviceActivityEvent(
        applications: applications.applicationTokens,
        categories: applications.categoryTokens,
        webDomains: applications.webDomainTokens,
        threshold: threshold ?? DateComponents(minute: 0),
        includesPastActivity: true
      )
    } else {
      return DeviceActivityEvent(
        applications: applications.applicationTokens,
        categories: applications.categoryTokens,
        webDomains: applications.webDomainTokens,
        threshold: threshold ?? DateComponents(minute: 0)
      )
    }
  }

If you don't want to set it to true, I unfortunately cannot help you. This seems to be one of many issues with DeviceActivity.

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	func activityEvent(_ key: String, threshold: DateComponents? = nil) -> DeviceActivityEvent {
	loadSelection(for: key)
	let applications = selectionToRestrict

	if #available(iOS 17.4, *) {
	return DeviceActivityEvent(
	applications: applications.applicationTokens,
	categories: applications.categoryTokens,
	webDomains: applications.webDomainTokens,
	threshold: threshold ?? DateComponents(minute: 0),
	includesPastActivity: true
	)
	} else {
	return DeviceActivityEvent(
	applications: applications.applicationTokens,
	categories: applications.categoryTokens,
	webDomains: applications.webDomainTokens,
	threshold: threshold ?? DateComponents(minute: 0)
	)
	}
	}