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I would like to be able to READ some of the parental control settings, and use those values as the default setting for our application's setting screen. Our app has a menu showing movies are available for purchase; including an adult section. (Movies are beamed to the TV not played in the app.) The movie thumbnails are "safe" but risque, and of course the movie descriptions... Well, no child needs to know what the babysitter does after dark.
On iOS devices, users may set up content restrictions via: Settings -> General -> Restrictions -> ... I'm particularly interested in Restrictions -> Movies and Restrictions -> TV Shows; where parents can set check-marks next to each rating if it will be permitted:
I don't want to change those settings, only read their current value in an officially supported way. I've searched around, and can't seem to find the right APIs. Obviously, we'd rather not show all content if the user has taken the time to setup some parental controls.
PS: Please don't tell me Apple will reject the app.
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Yes, you can monitor your child's iPhone from your iPhone. You can do that through the device setting. From the Setting, go to the message option, add your Apple ID, and enable the text message sharing option.
If you use iOS 12 or a more recent version, you can use Apple's cloud message sync feature. By enabling iCloud syncing, you can access all data from your child's device. Make sure to enable message synching so you can read messages from your child's phone.
Nope, unfortunately there's no API access to restrictions and parental controls.
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Parental control settings can be read with UserDefaults
UserDefaults.standard.object(forKey: "com.apple.content-rating.TVShowRating")
The value of this object ranges from 0 to 1000.
Content rating keys that can be read:
com.apple.content-rating.ExplicitBooksAllowed
com.apple.content-rating.ExplicitMusicPodcastsAllowed
com.apple.content-rating.AppRating
com.apple.content-rating.MovieRating
com.apple.content-rating.TVShowRating
More about what the values mean can be seen in the
Apple developer documentation: Respecting Restrictions
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