Parental control app developers band together to demand an API from Apple
Summary
A large group of developers who make parental control apps have banded together to demand that Apple come up with a technical solution that will allow them to continue to work on the iPhone. The move is necessary because Apple had begun blocking many of these apps recently because they took advantage of the Mobile Device Management (MDM) features on the iPhone. The first is that it was part of a larger review of MDM usage following what Apple saw as Facebook’s abuse of the feature earlier this year. “When Apple released its own screen time management tool, it also started removing established brands from the store or blocking updates to their apps,” they write on their website. As Jack Nicas at the New York Times notes, this move was spurred in part by encouragement from a former Apple executive, Tony Fadell.
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