FB15638219: Expose an option to hide .privacySensitive() views from screenshots

[samhenrigold]

• Date: 2024-10-30
• Resolution: Open
• Area: SwiftUI
• OS: iPadOS
• Type: Suggestion

Description

I’m developing a financial app and would like to create a “Hide sensitive information in screenshots” setting. The idea is that, if they’re submitting feedback about the app, they don’t have to redact info like their account balance. There’s no way to do this currently, since I’m only alerted to screenshots after the fact. It would make the most sense for this to be tied into the privacySensitive modifier.

Note to the reader of this GitHub issue

I didn’t share this with Apple, but you can currently do this with the undocumented disableUpdateMask property on a view’s CALayer. Which makes doing this in SwiftUI more of a pain, but it’s certainly possible: https://nsantoine.dev/posts/CALayerCaptureHiding/