iOS Session Replay¶

Prerequisites¶

• Ensure you have set up and initialized the FTMobileSDK RUM configuration, and enabled View monitoring collection.
• iOS Session Replay is currently an alpha feature, Version support: SDK.Version >= 1.6.0
• It is recommended to use the version displayed in the badge at the top of the document. Additionally, you can find the available alpha versions released using the command below. The alpha version changelog is here

pod trunk info FTMobileSDK | grep alpha 

Configuration¶

Link the FTSessionReplay feature component from the FTMobileSDK library to your project based on your package manager:

CocoaPods¶

pod 'FTMobileSDK', 'last_alpha_version'
pod 'FTMobileSDK/FTSessionReplay', 'last_alpha_version' # New addition

Swift Package Manager¶

dependencies: [
    .package(url: "https://github.com/GuanceCloud/FTMobileSDK.git", 
             from: "last_alpha_version")
],
targets: [
    .target(
        name: "YourTarget",
        dependencies: [
            .product(name: "FTMobileSDK", package: "FTMobileSDK")
            .product(name: "FTSessionReplay", package: "FTMobileSDK"), // New addition
        ]),
]

Code Sample¶

#import <FTMobileSDK/FTRumSessionReplay.h>

   FTSessionReplayConfig *srConfig = [[FTSessionReplayConfig alloc]init];
   srConfig.touchPrivacy = FTTouchPrivacyLevelShow;
   srConfig.textAndInputPrivacy = FTTextAndInputPrivacyLevelMaskSensitiveInputs;
   srConfig.sampleRate = 100;
   [[FTRumSessionReplay sharedInstance] startWithSessionReplayConfig:srConfig];

   let srConfig = FTSessionReplayConfig.init()
   srConfig.touchPrivacy = .show
   srConfig.textAndInputPrivacy = .maskSensitiveInputs
   srConfig.sampleRate = 100
   FTRumSessionReplay.shared().start(with: srConfig)

Privacy Overrides¶

Supported in SDK 1.6.1 and above

In addition to supporting global masking levels through FTSessionReplayConfig, the SDK also supports overriding these settings at the view level.

View-level privacy overrides:

• Support overriding text and input masking levels and touch masking levels
• Support setting specific views to be completely hidden

Note:

• To ensure correct identification of overrides, they should be applied as early as possible in the view lifecycle. This prevents the session replay from processing the view before the applied overrides.
• Privacy overrides affect the view and its subviews. This means that even if an override is applied to a view that may not immediately take effect (e.g., applying an image override to a text input), the override will still apply to all subviews.
• Privacy override priority: Subviews > Parent views > Global settings

Text and Input Override¶

To override text and input privacy, use sessionReplayOverrides.textAndInputPrivacy on the view instance to set it to one of the values in the FTTextAndInputPrivacyLevelOverride enum. To remove an existing override rule, simply set this property to FTTextAndInputPrivacyLevelOverrideNone.

#import <FTMobileSDK/UIView+FTSRPrivacy.h>
   // Set text and input override for a specific view
   myView.sessionReplayPrivacyOverrides.textAndInputPrivacy = FTTextAndInputPrivacyLevelOverrideMaskAll;
   // Remove text and input override settings for the view
   myView.sessionReplayPrivacyOverrides.touchPrivacy = FTTextAndInputPrivacyLevelOverrideNone;

   // Set text and input override for a specific view
   myView.sessionReplayPrivacyOverrides.textAndInputPrivacy = .maskAll
   // Remove text and input override settings for the view
   myView.sessionReplayPrivacyOverrides.textAndInputPrivacy = .none

Touch Override¶

To override touch privacy, use sessionReplayOverrides.touchPrivacy on the view instance to set it to one of the values in the FTTouchPrivacyLevelOverride enum. To remove an existing override rule, simply set this property to FTTouchPrivacyLevelOverrideNone.

#import <FTMobileSDK/UIView+FTSRPrivacy.h>
   // Set touch override for a specific view
   myView.sessionReplayPrivacyOverrides.touchPrivacy = FTTouchPrivacyLevelOverrideShow;
   // Remove touch override settings for the view
   myView.sessionReplayPrivacyOverrides.touchPrivacy = FTTouchPrivacyLevelOverrideNone;

   // Set touch override for a specific view
   myView.sessionReplayPrivacyOverrides.touchPrivacy = .show;
   // Remove touch override settings for the view
   myView.sessionReplayPrivacyOverrides.touchPrivacy = .none;

Hidden Element Override¶

For sensitive elements that need to be completely hidden, use sessionReplayPrivacyOverrides.hide to set them.

When an element is set to hidden, it will be replaced with a "Hidden" placeholder in the replay, and its subviews will not be recorded.

Note: Marking a view as hidden does not prevent touch interactions from being recorded on that element. To hide touch interactions, in addition to marking the element as hidden, use Touch Override.

#import <FTMobileSDK/UIView+FTSRPrivacy.h>
   // Mark hidden element override for a specific view
   myView.sessionReplayPrivacyOverrides.hide = YES;
   // Remove hidden element override settings for the view
   myView.sessionReplayPrivacyOverrides.hide = NO;

   // Mark hidden element override for a specific view
   myView.sessionReplayPrivacyOverrides.touchPrivacy = true;
   // Remove hidden element override settings for the view
   myView.sessionReplayPrivacyOverrides.touchPrivacy = false;

Sample Code and Configuration Reference¶

• iOS Demo Cocoapod Configuration
• iOS Demo Code Sample