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Re: Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. I love this, but does it require using the Cleaspace app / having a paid subscription?

> Does it require paid subscription No > Does it require using clearspace Yes in the sense that it needs to downloaded and logged in on your phone. No in the sense that you don't have to open it or use it after setup

Excellent. Thanks for this!

Re: Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API

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This is amazing. I've been measuring my mental wellbeing through different data points. Currently manually importing my apple health data into a Jupyter notebook and measuring against my journal sentiment, finances and whatever I can gain access to. This would be another interesting data point.

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Re: Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API

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post #23

This is amazing. I've been measuring my mental wellbeing through different data points. Currently manually importing my apple health data into a Jupyter notebook and measuring against my journal sentiment, finances and whatever I can gain access to. This would be another interesting data point.

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Re: Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API

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Wait is this just a proxy through to the clearspace app? Cool concept, might add this to Foqos (open source restrictions app). Is your API open source?

Clearspace is the only data source right now yes. Would love to have other options feeding in. Does Foqos measure total screen time on iOS?

Re: Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API

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post #35

This is great! I am really interested in trying this out. Also, I am wondering, are there solutions similar to this but on MacOS?

For retrieving Mac OS screen time programatically? Not that I'm aware of.

In any Apple device, In settings -> Screen Time there's an option for "share across devices". If that is turned on, all devices will report your cumulative totals. So if you're interested in retrieving your screen time from all your devices, you can turn that on and then your iPhone will report everything, which you could retrieve with this API. But you wouldn't be able to differentiate where the screen time came from.

Re: Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API

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Unrelated to the REST API, I just installed your Clearspace app on my Android phone (Pixel 8 W/ GrapheneOS). I can't use the app without connecting it to my Google account and the app requires network permissions? (There are so many others on the Play Store that will sell your app usage data.) Sorry, but no.

Understandable, but yes we need auth and would rather use third party (google) for that, all things considered. And yes we need the network. We don't sell your usage data.

Forcing users to have adtech surveillance platform accounts (and agree to TOS of same) to use your app isn’t a good look.
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