Hello, I am using a DeviceActivityEvent to limit access to an app after the user has spent x minutes on it. Sometimes it can happen that a DeviceActivitySchedule spans from 11:55pm - 12:25am (just an example). In these cases, I have noticed, the DeviceActivityMonitorExtension’s eventDidReachThreshold is not called after the user has reached the threshold time interval in the observed app. I assume this is because we have transitioned over midnight and something weird happens to the DeviceActivitySchedule. I’ve tried adding the day components to the DeviceActivitySchedule as well, but then it fails completely. Any advice how to handle this? I could, of course, create two separate DeviceActivitySchedules: one for before midnight, and one for after. But depending on the user’s real app usage that could lead to slightly different (and unexpected) behavior.

Hello! I am using the eventDidReachThreshold callback in the DeviceActivityMonitor in order to shield a target app after the user has spend x amount of time on it (e.g. x = 5 minutes). Many times this works fine, and I can trigger my shield after the specified threshold has been met. However sometimes, when they leave the target app before the threshold has been reached, the eventDidReachThreshold callback gets called randomly while they are doing something else on their phone (e.g. using a different app, on the Home Screen, phone locked…). From my perspective this does not make sense, since they are not actively spending time on the target app, and that time should not be counted towards the target app’s threshold. And it is also very confusing for the users because they will then find a blocked target app even though they haven’t used their time budget completely. This is not related to the intervalDidStart / intervalDidEnd callbacks, because they are not correlating with the timing of when the eventDidReachThreshold callback is called unexpectedly. Any ideas what this could be related to?

Hello! I am looking to access data on how many times (on a specific day, week, or month) an alphanumeric subscription offer code has been redeemed (to track affiliate marketing). Right now, I am using the Reporter.jar tool like this: java -jar Reporter.jar p=Reporter.properties a=1234567 m=Robot.XML Sales.getReport 123456789, Subscription, Summary, Daily, 20230120, 1_3 As a result, a long list of subscription events is downloaded, however it is not clear which date a particular event did occur on. It seems like actually they pile up with every additional day. These are the columns that I can see: App Name, App Apple ID, Subscription Name, Subscription Apple ID, Subscription Group ID, Standard Subscription Duration, Subscription Offer Name, Promotional Offer ID, Customer Price, Customer Currency, Developer Proceeds, Proceeds Currency, Preserved Pricing, Proceeds Reason, Client, Device, State, Country, Active Standard Price Subscriptions, Active Free Trial Introductory Offer Subscriptions, Active Pay Up Front Introductory Offer Subscriptions, Active Pay As You Go Introductory Offer Subscriptions, Free Trial Promotional Offer Subscriptions, Pay Up Front Promotional Offer Subscriptions, Pay As You Go Promotional Offer Subscriptions, Free Trial Offer Code Subscriptions, Pay Up Front Offer Code Subscriptions, Pay As You Go Offer Code Subscriptions, Marketing Opt-Ins, Billing Retry, Grace Period, Subscribers As you can see, a date is not among them. Would be great if anyone has feedback on how to make this happen!

Hello! I saw that iOS 14 shows a little icon on the App Store for each developer (see attached screenshot). Is it possible to change that icon and to replace it with the company logo? I‘d think that this option should be available somewhere on iTunes Connect but I couldn't find it so far... Thanks a lot and have a nice day! – Frederik

Hello good morning lovely ShazamKit team! I was wondering if there's a way to evaluate the result (SHMatch) to be able to estimate if this is a very good match (the catalog is very certain that this is correct), or if this is at the lower end of the spectrum of certainty. Thanks a lot and have a nice day! – Frederik

My app Homie allows users to pin certain values, accessories or scenes to their menu bar for quick access, such as HMAccessory. To remember which devices and accessories a user has pinned to the Menu Bar, I store their uniqueIdentifier. However, I noticed that from time to time this uniqueIdentifier changes (this often happens after restarting the computer or installing a macOS software update). In this case, the device is not re-identified and the pinned-status is lost. The user is confused, because they think my app didn't store their information probably. And I am confused because the identifier is not consistent across app-starts. For reference: I am not asking to have consistent identifiers between different devices, I am asking to have consistent identifiers on the very same device. Reference: FB9052957

Hello! I am developing an app (Homie) which uses HomeKit to give users access to their HomeKit devices + accessories via the Mac‘s Menu Bar. One feature is also to pin sensors (e.g., temperature) to the Menu Bar: To get updates to sensor values I am using the HMAccessoryDelegate‘s didUpdateValueForCharacteristic method. Some users are reporting that updates to Homie are passed along very infrequently und unreliably. I have set up a test with the HomeKit Accessory Simulator in which values are consistently passed along instantly. This problem is hard to debug for me, that‘s why I‘m asking what recommended ways would be to tackle this. I noticed that sometimes the HomeKit framework does not deliver updates unless the Home app is opened on my Mac or iPhone. But not sure if this is expected or related to that problem and what I can do about it. Any feedback & help is appreciated 🙏 Reference: