TipKit: Are tips marked "IgnoresDisplayFrequency" also ignored by display frequency?

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M_Kobb OP

Created May ’24

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Greetings,

I have set up two tips in my app, and my app is configured with Tips.configure([.displayFrequency(.daily)].

Tip 1 is set up with no options. Tip 2 has the IgnoresDisplayFrequency(true) option set:

var options: [Option] {
    MaxDisplayCount(3)
        
    // We want the user to see these because it's important.
    IgnoresDisplayFrequency(true)
}

This option works as expected, as far as I can tell, in terms of making sure that Tip 2 is shown even if I've already seen Tip 1 today. If I interact with my app such that Tip 1 is displayed, and I then interact with it such that Tip 2 should be displayed, Tip 2 shows immediately, even though a day hasn't passed.

However, if I do this the other way around, so that Tip 2 is displayed first, and then I interact so that Tip 1 should be displayed, my expectation would be that Tip 1 is not displayed, because another tip has already been shown today. I expected that it would not be shown until the following day, since it is not configured to ignore the tip frequency.

That's not what happens, though. Tip 1 is displayed right away, even though Tip 2 has just been shown. This makes me think that setting IgnoresDisplayFrequency on Tip 2 is causing it to also be ignored when considering whether other tips should be shown.

I did try omitting IgnoresDisplayFrequency option, and then as expected, only one tip is shown on a day, no matter which one is shown first.

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M_Kobb OP

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Following up here -- I spoke with one of the TipKit engineering team during WWDC 2025 and he confirmed that yes, setting this flag both causes that tip to ignore display frequency, and causes it to be ignored for purposes of calculating whether to display other tips that do obey the frequency.

They will clarify documentation.

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