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Very cool; wondering if this could work as a parental control. "screen time" on iOS is fundamentally broken, and something like this would require the child to come to the parent for screen time extensions (if the parent has the NFC chip).
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Yeah I can't find a clear way to do this from Swift and APIs apple exposes. I can be very wrong though and just didn't dig hard enough
Ah, you were trying to do it through Swift/within an actual app, thanks for clarifying. I think you are right, I couldn’t find a way to directly set status from within Swift, but there is a somewhat janky workaround I thought of. You should be able to have Shortcut hooks within your app (i.e., once the shortcut is triggered, it triggers an action within your app; or, inversed, have your app trigger a shortcut), and t…
cool, but can't use it : ( since it's not available in every country
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NFC tags can be scanned using a phone. An app on the phone can then detect the action and act accordingly. The phone can differentiate between different tags. I use an NFC tag to lock the house using Home Assistant.
OK. Why not just tap "lock the house" on your screen? Or use a voice interface (which requires zero extra hardware)?
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Apple Screen Time will occasionally stop blocking applications, allowing the child account to use them without restrictions. Other drawbacks include only a single period of "down time" per day. There is also an inability to totally block applications; the closest analogue is to set a maximum of one minute for the website or application.
not just occasionally but often, in our experience with multiple phones and iPads. I have 2 kids with devices and have found Screen Time completely useless. It is the right idea in theory but in practice it's broken (I'm guessing no Apple higher ups have young kids that they've tried to use this with.) Also, besides the resets (and by reset I mean not just time restrictions but content restrictions too), my kid can j…
I have occasionally wanted to trigger location-specific behavior on my kid's devices, like turning the wifi off when in their bedroom. This feels broadly in the category to me.
I'm curious why the NFC tags are required at all? Can't you switch profiles on your phone without scanning an NFC tag already? Couldn't your app allow profile switching without requiring any NFC tags? It's not clear to me what the NFC tags add to this experience.
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/set-up-a-focus-iphd62...
Very cool; wondering if this could work as a parental control. "screen time" on iOS is fundamentally broken, and something like this would require the child to come to the parent for screen time extensions (if the parent has the NFC chip).
How is that different from the parent holding the code?
I use them myself to limit some websites that waste my time
It is way too easy to click on 1 more minute, or 15 mins or ignore for the day
The only way to really block sites is to add them as adult websites and turn on parental controls
But can’t do that with apps
Very cool; wondering if this could work as a parental control. "screen time" on iOS is fundamentally broken, and something like this would require the child to come to the parent for screen time extensions (if the parent has the NFC chip).
How is that different from the parent holding the code?
You just give them the doohickey and ask for it back later. (Cloning the NFC tag is a much harder job that remembering a PIN.)