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How to get my app icon into the left down corner of iOS 8 lockscreen?


Ok, first of all I've been reading a lot of questions and all of them are asking about how to appear in "Recommended Apps" or something like that. I dont want that, for example, when Im near a Starbucks Cofee I get the starbucks app icon on the down left corner of the lockscreen..

Obviously I have the starbucks app installed and everithing, so I want to know how to do that, Im assuming it has to be with iBeacons or something but Im not shure.

Thanks.


Solution

  • If your app uses iBeacon region monitoring or geofence region monitoring then your app icon will be displayed when the device enters a monitored region.

    Otherwise, you have no control over the display of your app on the lock screen - Apple uses user behaviour tracking to determine which apps are often used in a particular location and display the appropriate icon.

    For example, when I am near a train station the timetable app I have installed is displayed because, presumably, lots of other people use that app in that location.

    This is probably the case with the Starbucks app - they aren't monitoring regions for every one of their stores, but rather their customers often use the app in those locations and Apple has observed this m