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 "<contentDescription>"
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 "<contentDescription>"
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 "<contentDescription>" (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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