How to hide specific apps from home screen proactively?

I'd like to use screen time Api 16.0 to hide specific apps from the home screen for individuals, not family/parental. I've already written the authentication:

let center = AuthorizationCenter.shared try await center.requestAuthorization(for: .individual)

But can't figure the doc that shows how to hide/unhide a specific app such as instagram.

The closes is familyActivityPicker https://developer.apple.com/documentation/familycontrols/familyactivitypicker but that's for IOS 15.0 API & based on user's selection versus being already pre-configured. AKA, when individual screentime API access given hide all social media apps or hide instagram.

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After requesting authorization using the AuthorizationCenter, if the user approves the request with Face ID or Touch ID, you can then use ManagedSettingsStore to hide Instagram:

let instagram = Application(bundleIdentifier: "com.burbn.instagram")
let store = ManagedSettingsStore()
store.application.blockedApplications = [instagram]
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  • Hi. Is there a way to do something similar with the "shielding" feature instead of the "blocking" feature?

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After requesting authorization using the AuthorizationCenter, if the user approves the request with Face ID or Touch ID, you can then use ManagedSettingsStore to hide Instagram:

let instagram = Application(bundleIdentifier: "com.burbn.instagram")
let store = ManagedSettingsStore()
store.application.blockedApplications = [instagram]
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  • Hi. Is there a way to do something similar with the "shielding" feature instead of the "blocking" feature?

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Worked! Thank you so much @Kmart! Is is in anyway possible to do the same with websites? Aka hide instagram.com bookmark from the homescreen.

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  • I tried doing:

    let mIg = WebDomain.init(domain: "www.instagram.com") let ingredients: Set = [mIg] let webContents = WebContentSettings.FilterPolicy.all(except:ingredients) store.webContent.blockedByFilter = webContents but it didn't hide the bookmark. Just blocked access to entry.

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