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Sep 14, 2024

Apple’s Screen Time API has some major issues

I’m Frederik and I’m the developer of the “one sec” app – which helps users to spend less time on social media. For that reason, I’m heavily making use of Apple’s Screen Time frameworks: DeviceActivity, ManagedSettings, FamilyControls. As a developer, it’s not fun to work with these frameworks. While the original intentions of the API are great, many bugs exist that make my life hard. I try my best to work around all limitations, but unfortunately it’s not always possible.
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Oct 11, 2020

one sec – break your social media habits

“one sec” uses Shortcuts Automation to toggle a deep breath animation whenever you open one of the configured apps (Instagram, Twitter, YouTube…). This breaks unconcious social media habits and even helps long-term by adding more friction when opening these apps. Breaks unconcious social media habits Being forced to take a deep breath helps yourself to reflect on what you are currently doing on your phone – did you really want to open Instagram or was it muscle memory?