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Apple’s competitive product (namely, Screen Time) has no API. It’s a system level feature that no third-party app has access to.


Which is not a fact of nature, but a decision that Apple made.


Is it impossible to believe that was a legitimate security decision? How would you implement such an API and prevent developers from abusing it for spyware purposes? Personally, even though I opt into sharing app-specific usage data with developers, I don’t particularly want my global device-level usage statistics available to any random app that also has network entitlements.




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