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Sunil Sharma
Sunil Sharma

Reputation: 2689

How can I lock other's app on iOS

I know it is not possible to lock other's app from my app using standard SDK API's(If I am wrong please let me know).

Is it possible to lock/password protect other's app from my app using SDK private API's but without jailbreaking iPhone?

Please don't answer just bluntly saying "Apple does not allow this". I know there would be no official way of doing it, and certainly not for an App Store application, and I know there are some apps like AppLocker which lock other's app.

Upvotes: -1

Views: 360

Answers (1)

matt
matt

Reputation: 534885

Is it possible to lock/password protect other's app from my app using SDK private API's but without jailbreaking iPhone?

No. Your app is sandboxed; even with private APIs, you can't subvert the file system to see outside your app's container. Thus, you can't see any other apps, and you can't see the regions of the disk that would allow you to do this sort of thing.

Being able to see those regions is exactly what jailbreaking is. Thus, you would have to jailbreak in order to accomplish this.

Upvotes: 3

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