MacAlert!
Up to the minute Apple and Mac news alerts
Screen Time on MacOS 10.15 Catalina Seems Useless
[2019-10-19 18:04:39]Kirk McElhearn: Screen Time was also added to macOS Catalina, with the same features. However, it doesn’t seem to work correctly. Rather than showing which apps are frontmost when you work, it shows how long apps are open. ... I keep a number of apps open all the time: Mail, Messages, Fantastical, OmniFocus, Music, and a few others. So counting them as actual “screen time” makes no sense. In the above example, all these apps were open all day — obviously, the Finder is always “open” — so the data is essentially useless. Is this a bug or a feature? I would think that Screen Time should only record that time when apps are frontmost. I can’t see the point of this feature on the Mac other than as a parental control. It seems like Apple just copied the design of iOS’s Screen Time without considering any of the many ways that the Mac is different from iOS. The good news: if you really want to measure how much time you’re spending using specific apps, there are excellent third-party utilities, like Timing and Time Sink. ★
RELATED!
PR Honcho Steve Dowling Is Leaving Apple
★ The iPhone 11 and iPhones 11 Pro
Facebook Launches Portal TV, a $149 Video Chat Set-Top Box
Panzarino: ‘The iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Do Disneyland After Dark’
Matthew Panzarino Hopes Apple Arcade Makes Room for Weird, Cool Shit
★ Let’s Go Further and Hope for Every Last Drop of Joy to Be Drained From the World
Jason Snell: ‘The U1 Chip in the iPhone 11 Is the Beginning of an Ultra Wideband Revolution’
University of Tennessee Offers Scholarship to Young Kid Bullied Over Homemade T-Shirt
Might the iPhones 11 Contain Hardware for Two-Way Inductive Charging?
Disney CEO Bob Iger Resigns From Apple Board
★ About That Washington Post Story on Apple Copying Features From Top Apps in the App Store
House Judiciary Committee Investigating Apple Regarding ‘Competition in Digital Markets’ (PDF)