@Quappi It seems like in the app they have on the App Store they are able to do this without push notification permissions. Tapping on the button immediately opens the parent app. That said, you're right they might be using some private API that has the potential to get rejected. If I did go the push notification route it seems like what would happen is the user taps on a button on the shield, then a push notification would come up for them and they would tap on that to open the app. Is there a way to implement local push notifications so the app get's opened immediately instead of the user needing to see a push notification and tap on it? I agree, we'll likely wait until next month anyway just to see if the API or sdk changes significantly during WWDC.

This company is now selling this exact functionality as an SDK: https://www.wellspent.so It seems a little silly to pay a company for an sdk of functionality that is a 10 minute WWDC video. That said, the opening the parent app with a button tap seems to be one piece of functionality that doesn't seem to be available out of the box in the Screen Time apis. Were you ever able to find a work-around? It seems like there might be something possible from within the DeviceActivityMonitorExtension instead of the ShieldActionDelegate?