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Screen time and Assistive Access
Hi So I've been using screen time to limit/monitor my children's access to the ipad. One of my children has found that enabling Assistive Access allows them to bypass screen time controls. Is there a way to block that feature from being enabled? I tried to circumvent it with purchasing... -
Screen Time and background activity
When I open Screen Time, I see these gray bars. I know my phone screen time isn't this high so I asked someone at the Apple Store and he said it was background activity from various apps and that there isn't a way to not show this in the Screen Time calculation. I'm curious, if this is the case... -
App for controlling kid's screen time
Is there an app to control the screen time of my kid's iPhone? I use the settings -> screen time-> kid name-> enter passcode-> adjust screen time route but it's a bit cumbersome. Would love to find an app that can do this more expediently. Better yet, where I can set multiple screen time... -
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Screen Time restricted websites
Restricted/blocked websites are suddenly accessible, seemed to be that way for a couple of betas 4 and 5? Anyone notice this? Any suggestions on a resolution?- Champton89
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- content restrictions parental controls screen time
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- Forum: iOS 18
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Device restrictions on supervised iPhone
Hi everyone, Not completely sure if this is the best place to discuss this, but I have for a while used supervised iOS/iPadOS devices (I don’t have a Mac). The reason for this is so that I can enforce the settings on my ControlD DNS account. For instance, my ControlD set-up is that for 90% of... -
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iphone ignores screen time app limits for snapchat and other apps and websites
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... -
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Apps refuse to sync on macbook pro after enabling child account screen time 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... -
Screen Time and Share Across Devices Not Working in iOS/iPadOS 17.1
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...- MikeMcCollister
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- Forum: iOS 17
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Parental Controls - Macs vs Other? Individual screen time?
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...- IceMan30
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- android chromebook content filter ios kids macos parental controls screen time windows
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- Forum: Mac Basics, Help and Buying Advice
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Screen Time picked up by "com.google.chrome.ios"
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?- mangosilicon
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- chrome screen time security
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- Forum: macOS Ventura (13)
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Apple web filter
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... -
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Weird ScreenTime notifications and random listing in App Limits
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... -
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Screen time and iOS 16? Havoc anyone? Always allowed list keeps resetting to defaults
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... -
Help: I need to find a way to block the Phone app at night
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... -
Screen time not working
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? -
iOS bug: Screen Time's Content and privacy restrictions not blocking Messages settings on iPhone
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...- Thor774
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- accounts bug restrictions screen time
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- Forum: iPhone Tips, Help and Troubleshooting
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apps to utilize the ScreenTime on watch
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...- prwnr
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- app screen time
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- Forum: Apple Watch
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Universal Stay focused and productive with AppBlock
Hi, I'm from AppBlock team and I would like to introduce you our app: AppBlock I would love to hear a feedback from you and thought on what should we add as a next feature. Press kit: https://impresskit.net/appblock AppBlock is bringing completely revolutionary app-blocking capabilities to iOS...- AppBlock
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- Forum: iOS Apps and Apple Arcade
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iPad Screen time
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... -
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Is there a way to get old screen time reports after it gets deleted?
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...- dvotz
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- deleted screen time settings
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- Forum: iPhone Tips, Help and Troubleshooting