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# User Steps Privacy API
### What this is?
A new SDK API lets you disable view content capture in User Steps and Repro Steps while keeping the journey signal (gesture, view type, screen name, timestamp).
* **Default is unchanged** capture stays on unless you explicitly call the API.
* **Screenshots are not affected** Session Replay and bug report screenshots continue to behave as before. Use the screenshot-masking APIs for those.
* **Events still fire** every tap, scroll, switch, slider change is recorded. Only the view's visible text is redacted.
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### How to enable it?
**Android**
```
Luciq.setViewsContentCaptureEnabled(false);
```
**iOS**
```
Luciq.viewsContentCaptureEnabled = false
```
Call once at app startup. Runtime-toggleable flipping it back to `true` resumes content capture on subsequent events.
#### User Steps
| Scenario | Before | After |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| Tap a button labeled "Home" with resource ID `btn_home` | `Tap in "Home" of type "Button" in "MainActivity"` | `Tap in "btn_home" of type "Button" in "MainActivity"` |
| Tap a button without a resource ID | `Tap in "Home" of type "Button" in "MainActivity"` | `Tap in "Button" in "MainActivity"` |
| Tap a TextView | `Tap in "Welcome" of type "TextView" in "MainActivity"` | `Tap in "tv_welcome" of type "TextView" in "MainActivity"` |
| Toggle a switch | `Enable in "Notifications" of type "Switch"` | `Enable in "sw_notifications" of type "Switch"` |
| Move a SeekBar | `Move in "Volume" of type "SeekBar"` | `Move in "sb_volume" of type "SeekBar"` |
| Scroll / swipe / pinch | unchanged | unchanged (no text captured today) |
#### Repro Steps
| Scenario | Before | After |
| ---------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| Button with visible text only | `the button "Login"` | `a button` |
| Button with both text and `contentDescription` | `the button "Login"` | `the button ""` |
| Button with `contentDescription` only | `the button "Login"` | `the button "Login"` (unchanged) |
| Button with icon only | icon bitmap captured | `a button` (icon dropped) |
| TextView with text only | `the label "Welcome back"` | `a label` |
| TextView with text + `contentDescription` | `the label "Welcome back"` | `the button ""` |
| ImageView with `contentDescription` | `the image "Profile"` | `the image "Profile"` (unchanged) |
| Switch with text only | `the switch "Notifications"` | `a switch` |
| Switch with `contentDescription` | `the switch "Notifications"` | `the switch ""` (unchanged) |
| SeekBar with label + progress | `the slider "Volume" to 75` | `the slider "Volume"` (progress dropped, label kept) |
| Tab with text | `the button "Home"` | `a button` |
| Tab with icon only | icon captured | `a button` (icon dropped) |
| Card / ViewGroup aggregating child labels | `UI that contains "Home - Profile - Settings"` | empty descriptor |
#### Jetpack Compose
| Scenario | Before | After |
| -------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| `Button("Login")` with `testTag("loginBtn")` | `the Composable with text "Login" and tag {loginBtn}` | `the Composable with tag {loginBtn}` |
| `Button("Login")` without a test tag | `the Composable with text "Login"` | `a Composable` |
| `Slider` at 0.75 with test tag | `the Slider Composable with tag {vol} to 0.75` | `the Slider Composable with tag {vol}` |
| `Text("Welcome")` with test tag | `the Label Composable with text "Welcome" and tag {...}` | `the Label Composable with tag {...}` |
### Before vs. After iOS
#### User Steps (UIKit)
| Scenario | Before | After |
| ------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- |
| Tap UIButton with title | `Tap in "Home" of type "Button" in "MainVC"` | `Tap in Button in MainVC` |
| Tap UILabel | `Tap in "Welcome" of type "UILabel" in "MainVC"` | `Tap in UILabel in MainVC` |
| Tap UIImageView with a11y label | `Tap in "Profile" of type "UIImageView" in "MainVC"` | `Tap in UIImageView in MainVC` |
| Toggle UISwitch | `Enabled in "Notifications"…` | `Enabled in UISwitch…` |
| Drag UISlider | `Moved "Volume"…` | `Moved UISlider…` (value dropped) |
#### User Steps (SwiftUI)
| Scenario | Before | After |
| -------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| `Button("Home")` | `Tap on Home` | `Tap on a button` |
| `Text("Welcome")` | `Tap on Welcome` | `Tap on a text` |
| `Slider` editing changed | `Changed Volume to 0.75` | `Changed a slider` |
| Customer-explicit `.setMessage("...")` | unchanged | **unchanged** your explicit messages are never overwritten |
#### Repro Steps
| Scenario | Before | After |
| -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------ | ------------------------------------- |
| UIButton with title | `the button "Login"` | `a button` |
| UIButton with icon only | icon captured | `a button` (icon dropped) |
| UILabel with text | `the text "Welcome"` | `a text` |
| UIImageView with a11y label | `the image "Profile"` | `an image` |
| UITextField with placeholder | placeholder text | `UI element` |
| UISwitch with a11y label | `the switch "Notifications"` | `a switch` |
| UISlider | `the slider "Volume" to 0.75` | `a slider` (label + progress dropped) |
| Bar button / tab-bar button with label | `the button "Done"` | `the button` |
| Container with child labels | `UI that contains "X - Y - Z"` | `UI element` |
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