Hello,
We are developing an iOS app that helps people review their device use through daily carbon estimates, a garden, local history and Home Screen widgets. All processing stays on the device. We want users to grant permission without choosing each app or entering daily figures.
The app has Family Controls distribution approval and the Family Controls App and Website Usage capability. However, the documentation for approvedWithDataAccess describes customer access for a device in the EU with an Apple Account set to an EU country or region. The Apple-provided development profile allows testing in other regions, so we do not treat a successful development test in Switzerland as approval for Swiss customers.
Could an Apple engineer clarify the supported design for users located in Switzerland with a Swiss Apple Account?
- Is there a documented API, entitlement or approval route for direct app-duration access in this situation?
- If direct access is unavailable, can ordinary individual authorization and DeviceActivityReport show all available activity without an app-by-app picker?
- Under the report extension's privacy rules, can a daily result be made available to the main app's history and widgets through any supported mechanism, or must it stay inside the report?
- Do TestFlight installations follow the same regional conditions as App Store installations?
We are looking for a design that follows the published access and privacy rules. We do not want to infer missing activity, work around regional restrictions, or treat development access as customer approval.
Documentation:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/familycontrols/authorizationstatus/approvedwithdataaccess
Thank you for any guidance.