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I am using the DeviceActivityMonitor eventDidReachThreshold functionality, but it became very unreliable on the iOS 17.5 beta.
Anyone experiencing similar problems?
Any known workarounds?
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We’ve received a lot of user complains after the latest iOS 17.4 update.
Our Safari extension does not work as reliably as it used to be (sometimes it’s just not loaded, or very slowly).
Is this a known issue?
Are any workarounds available?
On iOS 17.5 the problem seems to be fixed, but I’m still wondering for a workaround because we dont know how long until 17.5 is released.
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I am currently debugging an issue with DeviceActivityMonitor where the threshold is reached even though the target app (e.g. Instagram) is not being used actively.
I noticed that the device with the unexpected behavior had the instagram.com website opened in the Safari web browser (among hundreds of other tabs).
That tab was not actively used either (not in foreground, Safari app neither used).
However, I was wondering if it can happen that this website is contributing towards the threshold as well even though it is in background and not used?
Otherwise I cannot explain myself this strange behavior.
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I have two repeating DeviceActivitySchedules running in my app and noticed a super strange behavior:
whenever I modify Screen Time API permission settings (granting an additional app permission, or removing permission for a different app (completely different unrelated screen time apps from App Store)) all my DeviceActivitySchedules are cancelled and the intervalDidEnd callbacks are called
my permission is not modified in this scenario
this is a super strange and unexpected behavior
is anyone able to reproduce this?
for me this happens 100% of the times I do this
any known workarounds?
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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.
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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?
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Hello!
I make use of the new iOS 15.4 SKAdNetwork.updatePostbackConversionValue feature:
SKAdNetwork.updatePostbackConversionValue(0) { error in
if let error = error {
print(error.localizedDescription)
}
}
I am not sure why, but I always see this error message in the console:
SKAdNetwork: Error while updating conversion value: Error Domain=SKANErrorDomain Code=10 "(null)"
The operation couldn’t be completed. (SKANErrorDomain error 10.)
Any idea what’s going on there? What does Error Code 10 mean? Couldn't find anything in the documentation about that so far.
I have the NSAdvertisingAttributionReportEndpoint key with domain (https://api2.branch.io/v1/skadnetwork/advertiser_app) in my .plist.
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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:
Quappi.