[chronial]

My understanding is that they were providing a VPN that did the tracking and blocking, without gaining any access to the actual device. I don't see how this article is related to MDM profiles or Apple's press release.

Am I missing something?

[scarface74]

One of the points was that it was designed to stop you from “opening an app” based on certain criteria. The only way you can do that is with MDM on iOS.

[chronial]

I am confused by your use of quotation marks. That phrase is not contained in the article. You might be referring to this sentence?

> In addition to tracking the time spent on social media apps, we needed to implement the feature to block those apps when the user reached the configured time limit.

But "block those apps" is a perfectly sensible description of "blocking tcp certain connections at VPN level" and thus a very different statement to "stop you from opening an app".

Please actually check what was said before you pretend to quote someone.

[scarface74]

In the screenshot of the notes app one of the bullet points said “....don’t allow me to open Facebook more than 5 times a day”