How to exclude Notes and Reminders apps from the UIActivityViewController?

Question

I am creating a UIActivityViewController and pass String and URL to it. This, obviously, configures the UIActivityViewController to use some items which I want to exclude (my objective is to share the info about my app).

I have managed to exclude lots of system provided activities (like 'Add to Reading list') by setting the appropriate excludedActivityTypes.

However, I am unable to exclude Reminders and Notes apps. Can someone suggest a way of doing it? These apps appear 3rd and 4th on the list and therefore make Twitter and Facebook not visible unless user scrolls.

Answer 1

If you don't want to subclass UIActivityViewController you can include them in your .excludedActivityTypes when creating your UIActivityViewController.

Objective C:

UIActivityViewController *activityController = [[UIActivityViewController alloc]initWithActivityItems:sharingItems applicationActivities:nil];
activityController.excludedActivityTypes = @[
    UIActivityTypeAssignToContact,
    UIActivityTypePrint,
    UIActivityTypeAddToReadingList,
    UIActivityTypeSaveToCameraRoll,
    UIActivityTypeOpenInIBooks,
    @"com.apple.mobilenotes.SharingExtension",
    @"com.apple.reminders.RemindersEditorExtension"
];
[self presentViewController:activityController animated:YES completion:nil];

Swift 4.2:

let activityController = UIActivityViewController(activityItems: sharingItems, applicationActivities: nil)
activityController.excludedActivityTypes = [
    UIActivity.ActivityType.assignToContact,
    UIActivity.ActivityType.print,
    UIActivity.ActivityType.addToReadingList,
    UIActivity.ActivityType.saveToCameraRoll,
    UIActivity.ActivityType.openInIBooks,
    UIActivity.ActivityType(rawValue: "com.apple.reminders.RemindersEditorExtension"),
    UIActivity.ActivityType(rawValue: "com.apple.mobilenotes.SharingExtension")]
present(activityController, animated: true, completion: nil)