Deactive iOS 9 Safari Content Blocking from within the app?

Question

I am searching for a way to easily deactivate the safari content blocking from within the app. Any idea how to do this? Can SFContentBlockerManager.reloadContentBlockerWithIdentifier be helpful for this?

Answer 1

If you are displaying data inside SFSafariViewController it's impossible, because Enabling/Disabling iOS9 Content Blocker is a User Settings. As far as I understand it, Content blocker doesn't affect UIWebView.

During beta reloadContentBlockerWithIdentifier worked in Simulator, but didn't work on real devices.

Answer 2

You can "kinda" disable safari content blocking by providing NSItemProvider with no rules in the ContentBlockerRequestHandler.

Whenever user enables/disables content blocking in the main app you can sync this state with the extension e.g. using shared container UserDefaults(suiteName:) in the App Group and call SFContentBlockerManager.reloadContentBlockerWithIdentifier

Of course, the extension will have to stay enabled in Settings.