CarPlay CarPlay Waze counts towards Screentime

[LarsN.]

Hi there,

since some weeks I've noticed that my phone has a higher amount of Screetime, but I thought it must be from me locking up the macbook air delivery very often and other parcels for christmas coming.

But recently I have found out that Waze, despite running on my Car Display in CarPlay counts towards Screentime.

Using a iPhone X 14.3 and a standard Lightning cable to a Skoda Octavia III. This is definitely new. Is this a iOS issue or Waze bug?

 

[AZhappyjack]

Hi there,

since some weeks I've noticed that my phone has a higher amount of Screetime, but I thought it must be from me locking up the macbook air delivery very often and other parcels for christmas coming.

But recently I have found out that Waze, despite running on my Car Display in CarPlay counts towards Screentime.

Using a iPhone X 14.3 and a standard Lightning cable to a Skoda Octavia III. This is definitely new. Is this a iOS issue or Waze bug?

Not sure it is an "issue"... after all, you are using your device with an active screen (phone or CarPlay head unit)... kind of makes sense to me... but I also have a long history of being wrong. (ask wife/kids).

 

[LarsN.]

Thanks for your quick feedback. Have wife and kids as well. 😀
From my opinion, everything that hasn’t been announced or can be found in the release notes is unintentional and potentially a bug. My tv is also a screen and watching movies could be seen as screentime under that rules.

Let’s see what other say. I was hoping to find out if this is exclusive to my setup.

 

[AZhappyjack]

Thanks for your quick feedback. Have wife and kids as well.
From my opinion, everything that hasn’t been announced or can be found in the release notes is unintentional and potentially a bug. My tv is also a screen and watching movies could be seen as screentime under that rules.

Let’s see what other say. I was hoping to find out if this is exclusive to my setup.

It’s not unique to your setup. I drove 20 minutes this morning with CarPlay active and it logged that time as ‘screen time’.

 

[Jmausmuc]

Same issue here. Unbelievable.

 

[LarsN.]

It’s still an issue with iOS 15. Why doesn’t watching something with my Apple TV count as screentime then?

 

[TonyC28]

Chiming in to say that this is still going on. I am assuming it’s a bug and not intended behavior.

 

[LarsN.]

Did you reported it as a bug? Are you using a beta via TestFlight?

 

[TonyC28]

Did you reported it as a bug? Are you using a beta via TestFlight?

I will get it reported now. I'm on the standard public release of iOS 15.5. I should have mentioned this isn't with Waze for me. It's any app left on the screen in CarPlay such as Music or Overcast.