Setting to turn on native Screen Time integration on iOS
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Hello iOS developers,
Before using Vivaldi on iOS, I was using Safari on iOS. One of the very useful features was that it was integrated with Screen Time in the Settings of the operating system.
This allowed me to set restrictions to the device to reduce my time on individual or categories of applications and websites (example: Restrict my social media access to 1 hour per day, Restrict my Instagram access to 5 minutes per day)
This worked great, because it would not only identify the app that needed restricting, but often the corresponding website.
As a Vivaldi user, now the Screen Time app just registers time spent in Vivaldi, and can't see the websites visited to ensure they fall within the restrictions.
I would love a toggle to "Allow Screen Time to access my browsing activity" in the settings of Vivaldi.
This would mean anyone who uses this feature would not have to use Safari. They would have a second browser option (I dont think any other browser supports this today).
This would mean Vivaldi has better Parental/Guardian controls via the operating system.
I understand there might be privacy concerns with sharing data with the native Apple OS, so this is why I am proposing it would be an opt-in feature. Disabled as default.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/108806
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/screentime -
I would like screen time to be added to Vivaldi to because this would help me with websites I want blocked stay blocked.
Seems to work with limitations like if I don’t want spend this much time in app or downtime where the tells you the time you have before it shuts down seems to work very well.
The problem is the website blocker is not working within Vivaldi iOS browser for some odd reason. Which means the website blocker does not work in Vivaldi and I can go to sites I already blocked.
So be nice if the websites could be blocked as well the time limit and downtime. This would help a bunch.
