Wow. I didn't know Apple let apps have that level of restriction on other installed apps. Perhaps I'm behind on my iOS APIs. I'd be eager to learn more on what kind of parental-control/screen-time magic goes into this.
This is really cool, like incredibly cool.
Screen Time reminders just did not work for me, it was a no-brainer to just hit "Get more time" and put in my passcode, but this adds a lot more friction.
Still, I think it's a bandaid on a larger problem, and if I was truly addicted (which I very well could be), I would just change the settings or uninstall the app. Not a problem you can solve, of course, but this is still a great leap forward.
The biggest problem I experienced with Screen Time is that when an app is outside of its limits, push notifications from it do not get delivered. So enabling the feature caused me to end up missing out on timely push notifications. Sometimes the notifications during the downtime got delivered later and sometimes they just never appeared at all.
This seems like a bug to me, or at best a very unintuitive side effect. I wish there were a way to still have push notifications delivered normally and only have Screen Time effect actual app usage.
totally agree - exceptionally unintuitive side effect. we've been pushing on the apple support ecosystem to add the ability to "shield" apps without obstructing their notifications, and other developers have been piling on.
We might be able to get there at some point. Yes you can uninstall us, but if you have a support network that automatically gets notified if you uninstall us, you might think twice about it.
This is really cool, like incredibly cool.
Screen Time reminders just did not work for me, it was a no-brainer to just hit "Get more time" and put in my passcode, but this adds a lot more friction.
Still, I think it's a bandaid on a larger problem, and if I was truly addicted (which I very well could be), I would just change the settings or uninstall the app. Not a problem you can solve, of course, but this is still a great leap forward.