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[nottorp]

I was wondering... so apps makers that want to reduce hassle will have to roll their own way of storing settings?

Edit: HUH in all caps. Apple says:

"This reason does not permit reading information that was written by other apps or the system, or writing information that can be accessed by other apps."

You mean they allow an app to read the settings from another app?

[shantara → nottorp]

No. User defaults are already scoped per app. The apps that declare the same app group in the application bundle, can access each other’s data. But this kind of data sharing could be done only with the apps from the same developer, you can’t access data of another arbitrary app.

[nottorp → shantara]

Then why do you have to state that particular API's usage?