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Reply to Screen Time category
[quote='332462022, arlomedia, /thread/108057?answerId=332462022#332462022, /profile/arlomedia'] this capability should be coming soon [/quote] Thanks a lot for the update! Do you know if this capability has been added by now? Would be super useful to know!
Topic: App & System Services SubTopic: Core OS Tags:
Aug ’25
Reply to iOS 26 regression: `DeviceActivityEvent`: `eventDidReachThreshold` called immediately (instead of waiting till threshold is reached)
Hey @CaliforniaJay! I just wanted to follow up with you about this – I am currently creating a sample project for Apple to reproduce this. I think it would also help if you could reproduce the issue on Public Beta 4 / Developer Beta 7 and attach another sysdiagnose to your radar. Thanks a lot for your help on this, I hope we can address this before iOS 26 gets shipped!
Topic: App & System Services SubTopic: General Tags:
Aug ’25
Reply to Opening Main App from Screen Time Configuration Action Extension
[quote='797430021, TrevSchmidt, /thread/797430, /profile/TrevSchmidt'] have the button that starts the task open up the main application and deeplink to the focus view [/quote] This is not possible unfortunately. We have filed many bug reports on this but Apple has not addressed this so far. This has also been a topic on the dev forums a couple of times: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/793060 There are some apps that use private API and App reviews seems to be fine with that because these apps are on the store. However, Apple is not telling us which API they are using which seems a bit unfair. I would encourage you to file a bug report as well. That’s all we can do for now. And fingers crossed Apple stops neglecting this framework at some point… Here are my bug reports on this: FB18846650 FB15500681 FB15079668
Topic: App & System Services SubTopic: General Tags:
Aug ’25
Reply to Screen Time API - Get user total screen time
[quote='797162021, Roshan_Owaves, /thread/797162, /profile/Roshan_Owaves'] If not, is it expected that this data is only available in the Settings app and not exposed to developers? [/quote] Unfortunately, the only way to access this data is within a sandboxed DeviceActivityReport Extension, as you have correctly stated. So there’s no way for you to extract the data and use it for something else. Seems like Apple is keeping that functionality for themselves. You could try filing a feedback request via https://feedbackassistant.apple.com to make sure they’ll consider adding this.
Topic: App & System Services SubTopic: General Tags:
Aug ’25
Reply to Token Selection from DeviceActivityReport
[quote='729818021, CaliforniaJay, /thread/729818, /profile/CaliforniaJay'] Is there ay way to accomplish passing a token from the sandboxed report extension to my app? [/quote] Unfortunately, this is not possible. As you have stated, tokens are not sensitive data, but Screen Time usage data is. So Apple is not allowing ANY data to leave the sandboxed DeviceActivityReport :/
Topic: App & System Services SubTopic: General Tags:
Aug ’25
Reply to iOS 26 regression: `DeviceActivityEvent`: `eventDidReachThreshold` called immediately (instead of waiting till threshold is reached)
[quote='854399022, CaliforniaJay, /thread/793747?answerId=854399022#854399022, /profile/CaliforniaJay'] Only the one call right after scheduling and for me it's consistently doing this. [/quote] That’s Bad! @Apple: Please fix this! Just relying on the schedule is unfortunately not an option for me. I need the threshold trigger :/
Topic: App & System Services SubTopic: General Tags:
Aug ’25