screen time

Hi- I have screen time set up for my young early teen daughter. It works about as I expect, except for certain apps, namely snapchat. My daughter is the brightest most beautiful student of them all, but I don't think she has skill necessary to install some clandestine app to remove app limits...

Hello. So I've recently created a child Apple ID using my friend's iPhone as a parent device in order to then log in as a child on my mac and iPad and set up screen time limits since my device addiction is impossible to reign in any other way. All had been jolly good until recently I've noticed...

I have been using Screen Time App Limits for a few months ago starting with iOS/iPadOS 16.x. It worked most of the time synching between both devices. It got a little worse with iOS/iPadOS 17.0 but now with iOS/iPadOS 17.1 it no longer shares between devices. To try to kick this back into...

Hello Forum! I have a 10 yo son who's reaching out more and more into the digital world. I'm looking for any general suggestions or specifics on how best to set him up, as well as creating the least frustration or us as parents of an upcoming tween/teen. So far we have an old iPhone (working...

I just installed a fresh copy of Ventura on my M2 MBA and I'm not logged into iCloud nor do I have an iPhone. I just activated Screen Time and the first app I see get picked up is "com.google.chrome.ios". How is this possible?

Hi all, TLDR: how is Apple’s built-in web filter managed? How is it updated and improved and how frequently? For a while I’ve been using a DNS service to filter web content on my iPhone, having switched from Apple’s own “limit adult content’ setting. I found Apple’s own filter to be really...

I was getting weird ScreenTime notifications. Then I found "montgomerycountymd.gov" in my App Limits settings. Problem is I NEVER even visited this site on any of my devices let alone adding it to App Limits. Is this just a bug or should I be worried about device security? I ran a Malwarebytes...

Hi all, It used to be that screen time would "just work", even across different iOS versions, i.e. when one device (iPad) was on 15.4 and another (iPhone) was on 15.3, it would just work or at least all settings would be preserved. Since iOS 16, my life as a father has become burdened by...

I have a teenager and her iPhone is configured with Screen Time. Downtime is set to block many apps late at night when it's time to sleep. Lately, I have noticed that she has started to make and receive phone calls very late at night when the rest of the house is asleep. You can block every app...

Just got my iPhone 14 Pro Max the phone is running ios 16.2 (which it shipped with) and screen time isn’t working, any ideas?

At some point during the latest iOS updates something happened with the option that blocks "Account changes" under Screen Time's Content and privacy restrictions. Before the problem started, when you activated this option the whole contents under the section Settings > Messages were blocked, you...

Do anyone know about apps that are using ScreenTime to show this metric on the watch? in form of a widget or just by an app? Im quite amused that apple is not providing any widget to show the screen time data on apple watch and I’m trying to find something that would do. So far I only found app...

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Hi, screen time is nice… until it’s completely utterly garbage… I must miss something. I set things so kid iPad app block after certain amount of time. Sometime I put the password to extend the screen time for an app and it’s working fine. The problem is… fuc#%$& safari. It ask me a...

I like looking at old screen time but it keeps deleting old weeks and the last day it shows is July 3rd when I want a lot older dates than that. On the top of that week it says “down six percent from last week” so that means there is some rememberance of old weeks and with all the hacking...

Hi all, I have 2 older Macs running Big Sur and Catalina. I have an iPad and iPhone running iOS 15.2. I have screen time sharing enabled for all devices. On the iPad and iPhone I can see all 4 devices in screen time but on both Macs I cannot see the iPhone in the list. Only the other 3. I've...

I have a new iphone 13. The user is younger than 18 and I have Screen Time active. How do I get the temporary iCloud storage Apple is offering when readying an old phone to back up to iCloud? I don't see the Transfer or Reset Option at the bottom of the General Settings Page. I tried to turn off...

So, I have a problem with Screen Time on my devices - iPhone 13 running iOS 15.1 and iPad Air 4 with iPadOS 15.1. The feature is extremely inconsistent across my devices. For example, I used my phone for 1,5 hour, but Screen Time on my iPad shows only 55 minutes. The other way around is even...

Does macOS have some internal way to do DNS filtering? Like whitelisting only specific websites. I know there are apps like AdGuard. There is also ScreenTime. But will ScreenTime limit only connections by apps and from the browser, or is it really a global filter for the whole system (so it...

Hi, Screen Time would appear to have a lot of potential but every time I've tried to use it to regulate kids usage I run into limitations that render it useless. My kids are online-learning and all I want is to be able to restrict them to the apps/sites they need during the school day. After...