Overlay and Accessibility Permissions for ios Apps

I am developing an app that requires user to turn on overlay permissions (with a prompt provided to the user) as well as accesibility settings. The goal is to display a floating button on screen, which reads screen content only when user taps on that button. It is not a persistant overlay because user can make floating button disappear by turning it off inside the app. I want to know if apple app store policies will be ok with this kind of feature and if there is anything particular I need to comply with to enable my app in the app store?

Answered by DTS Engineer in 854095022

I don’t work for App Review and thus can’t give you definitive answer about their policies. However, I would like to ask about the technical aspects of this.

Your subject line makes it clear that you’re targeting iOS. Reading your post, you seem to be requesting something that’s not technically possible with the APIs in the iOS SDK. So, my advice is that you start there. And if you discover that it’s not possible to reach your goal with iOS SDK APIs, then the App Review question is no longer relevant.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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I don’t work for App Review and thus can’t give you definitive answer about their policies. However, I would like to ask about the technical aspects of this.

Your subject line makes it clear that you’re targeting iOS. Reading your post, you seem to be requesting something that’s not technically possible with the APIs in the iOS SDK. So, my advice is that you start there. And if you discover that it’s not possible to reach your goal with iOS SDK APIs, then the App Review question is no longer relevant.

Share and Enjoy

Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

Overlay and Accessibility Permissions for ios Apps
 
 
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