{"id":23683,"date":"2018-12-12T13:13:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T18:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23683"},"modified":"2019-09-02T15:10:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T19:10:19","slug":"apple-puts-third-party-screen-time-apps-on-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/12\/apple-puts-third-party-screen-time-apps-on-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Puts Third-party Screen Time Apps on Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/12\/05\/apple-puts-third-party-screen-time-apps-on-notice\/\">Sarah Perez<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OhMDee\/status\/1070441477187133440\">Dan Masters<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/12\/05\/apple-puts-third-party-screen-time-apps-on-notice\/\">\n<p>A number of app developers building third-party screen time trackers and parental control applications are worried that Apple&rsquo;s increased scrutiny of their apps in recent weeks is not a coincidence. With Apple&rsquo;s launch of iOS 12, the company has implemented its own built-in screen time tracking tools and controls. Not long after, developers&rsquo; third-party screen time apps came under increased review from Apple, and, in some cases, rejections and removals from the App Store.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Some of the developers, we understand, were told they were in violation of <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/app-store\/review\/guidelines\/\">App Store developer guideline 2.5.4<\/a>, which specifies when multitasking apps are allowed to use background location. Specifically, developers were told they were &ldquo;<em>misusing background location mode for purposes other than location-related features.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In an odd turn of events, after Space and Mute published on their <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@nick.kuh\/mute-app-startup-to-shutdown-a1db01440c56\">public<\/a> company <a href=\"https:\/\/findyourphonelifebalance.com\/news\/2018\/11\/7\/space-versus-apple\">blogs<\/a> to complain, they received a call from Apple and had their apps reinstated on the App Store.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/12\/apple-removes-rescuetime-from-the-app-store\/\">Apple Removes RescueTime From the App Store<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Perez (via Dan Masters): A number of app developers building third-party screen time trackers and parental control applications are worried that Apple&rsquo;s increased scrutiny of their apps in recent weeks is not a coincidence. With Apple&rsquo;s launch of iOS 12, the company has implemented its own built-in screen time tracking tools and controls. 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