{"id":25464,"date":"2019-06-03T11:59:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T15:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=25464"},"modified":"2019-06-04T10:10:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T14:10:32","slug":"proposed-screen-time-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/03\/proposed-screen-time-api\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Screen Time API"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2019\/05\/31\/apple-screen-time-api-campaign\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2019\/05\/31\/apple-screen-time-api-campaign\/\"><p>Over a dozen parental control app developers have come together with a shared message for Apple: it&rsquo;s &ldquo;time to put kids first.&rdquo;<\/p><p>Together, they have launched a new website called <a href=\"https:\/\/screentimeapi.com\/\">Screen Time API<\/a> that urges Apple to release a public API granting developers access to the same functionalities that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/how-to\/how-to-use-screen-time-in-ios-12\/\">iOS 12&rsquo;s Screen Time feature<\/a> uses. The developers have even <a href=\"https:\/\/screentimeapi.com\/screen-time-api\">proposed their own API<\/a>, complete with samples of code and a diagram of how it would work.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The developers were encouraged to act by Tony Fadell, a former Apple executive known as the &ldquo;Father of the iPod.&rdquo; Fadell backed the developers in a series of tweets, and according to The New York Times, he also said he would help &ldquo;push&rdquo; their message &ldquo;out to the world,&rdquo; adding &ldquo;just make sure it&rsquo;s done BEFORE WWDC.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/30\/app-store-competition\/\">App Store Competition<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/29\/apple-cracks-down-on-screen-time-apps-that-use-mdm\/\">Apple Cracks Down on Screen Time Apps That Use MDM<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"proposed-screen-time-api-update-2019-06-04\">Update (2019-06-04): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nilrog\/status\/1135663155521163264\">nilrog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nilrog\/status\/1135663155521163264\">\n<p>+1000000 to this...<\/p>\n<p>The @Apple implementation of Screen Time sucks am because it&rsquo;s filled with weird bugs...so we need alternatives!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol: Over a dozen parental control app developers have come together with a shared message for Apple: it&rsquo;s &ldquo;time to put kids first.&rdquo;Together, they have launched a new website called Screen Time API that urges Apple to release a public API granting developers access to the same functionalities that iOS 12&rsquo;s Screen Time feature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-06-03T15:59:07Z","apple_news_api_id":"90827bc1-a623-447a-bf14-fbe3be52a844","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-06-04T14:10:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AkIJ7waYjRHq_FPvjvlKoRA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1610,1746,1651,1737,1535],"class_list":["post-25464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-mobile-device-management-mdm","tag-parental-controls","tag-screen-time","tag-tony-fadell"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25491,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25464\/revisions\/25491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}