When "Family Control" will be available for AppStore and AdHoc distribution?

Does anybody know release date of "Family Control" capability for Distribution? iOS 15 was released, but "Family Control" is still available only for Development

I would have expected that with the release of iOS 15 that there would be a Distribution path defined here. Please open a bug report on this and include the following information, the bundle id that you are testing with and the information that you have shared on this thread.

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Matt Eaton
DTS Engineering, CoreOS
meaton3@apple.com

There is an Entitlement Request form for distribution with the Screen Time and Family Controls APIs. It has not made it to our Developer Documentation yet, but you can access the form here:

https://developer.apple.com/contact/request/family-controls-distribution

Note that you will need to be logged into your Developer Account to access and submit the form.

Matt Eaton
DTS Engineering, CoreOS
meaton3@apple.com

Hi, I'm having the same issue. Any update on that?

Hi All, is the API now available for app-store releases? and if not, are there any timelines when it will be available for market releases? Or Any possibility of getting it released with the upcoming iOS 16?

@meaton Can you please request a thorough walkthrough/guide to be written for the community on this as well as help the Apple team improve UX on enabling this? Others are dealing with this on https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/701874?login=true and I'm currently dealing with this as wel. The request form at https://developer.apple.com/contact/request/family-controls-distribution does not provide any submission confirmation (and it's difficult to find, ideally a link to request this would be in the Identifier tooltip and not just at the root of https://developer.apple.com/documentation/familycontrols), there is no way to check the status or estimated timeline, and it's not clear that the family control distribution request need to be enabled for related modules like a ShieldExtension.

I have the entitlement for Development but not Distribution, and have wasted a few days re-provisioning Certificates, Identifiers, Profiles multiple times only to land here and assume that our Profile doesn't have this Ad Hoc or App Store distribution enabled. We submitted the form about a month ago and still are left wondering if/when there will be traction here. I've put in a support ticket to get an update but all-in-all the developer experience could be a lot better.

Can you please request a thorough walkthrough/guide to be written for the community on this as well as help the Apple team improve UX on enabling this?

I encourage you to make this request yourself. Hmmm, maybe multiple requests, one for each of the pain points you described.

Please post the numbers of any bugs you file, just for the record.

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