I figured out that core data was the complete wrong way to go. You need to use UserDefaults to be able to persist the picker.

As for not changing selectionToDiscourage in any way, I didn't because I am not sure how. For example, I tried writing this in my fetchApps function - model.selectionToDiscourage = savedSelection.map(.bundleIdentifier) My code throws an error here saying that I cannot assign value of type '[String?]' to type 'FamilyActivitySelection'.

This is the data which savedSelection returned when I printed it after selecting an app (I wrote a print statement inside of fetchApps) - Application(token: ApplicationToken(data: 128 bytes)) [<AppToken: 0x30351ff70> (entity: AppToken; id: 0x853eb00f9a7fd9c0 x-coredata://15EF1B82-60AB-499D-A5A8-B65972D11F59/AppToken/p29; data: { bundleIdentifier = Temp; })] I am not sure if this is the right value that you are talking about.

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