It would be nice to tag apps so that they can be used for correlation.

Maybe you could integrate with Google’s Digital Wellbeing tools?

I’m pretty sure Google don’t make this data available unfortunately.

There are many apps out there that will give you these numbers. I don’t know if they track screen on or something else. This is an old answer, but it may still be correct:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3446202/android-detect-phone-unlock-event-not-screen-on

Apple makes this hard to do, though, IIRC.

@willem: Services like rescue time will get you what you want. I don’t use them any more but they do give you a breakdown of how many times you opened which apps and how long you spent in the app and more.

But if they also don’t have APIs, as is the case for the vast majority, that doesn’t help us get that data either.

The exist native app could do this

You can track phone usage using RescueTime, but that doesn’t sync with Exist.io

RescueTime mobile app already have this data, it would be great if you add few rows to current productivity list.

“You unlock your phone more on days tagged with ‘bored’” I think this could provide some cool insights.

I believe this would now be possible on iOS via the new screentime api

Do you have a link to details about the API? The docs I’ve found don’t have any options for us to get that data out.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/screentime this should be the API he Dan mentioned. There should be more on internet about how this work

I’ve played with RescueTime’s api for this and this worked 3 years ago:

def get_mobile_minutes(date):
    “”“given the date as a formatted string, returns mobile minutes as an int”“”
    headers = {‘key’: api_token}
    data = requests.get('https://www.rescuetime.com/anapi/data?key='+api_token+'&restrict_source_type=mobile&format=json&restrict_begin='+date+'&restrict_end='+date).text

    minutes_spent_on_date = json.loads(data)['rows'][0][1]//60

    return minutes_spent_on_date

Yep, these are the docs I’ve already read, which don’t make any mention of a way to get data out of Screen Time, unfortunately.

Wow! The way Timing has now integrated ScreenTime is AMAZING. Wonder if you could integrate with them?

That’s a really interesting workaround for Screen Time! We have an existing suggestion for Timing here.

We’ve now added support for mobile screen time on Android via RescueTime, but I’ve updated this task to reflect that it’s still not possible to get this data on iOS.

Still not possible now there is the screen time app?

If you’re referring to this https://developer.apple.com/documentation/screentime, it allows apps to display the data using their own UI controls, but does not allow them to read or export it. Basically, your app provides a view for the screen time framework to render to, rather than screen time giving you the data to render.