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Craigf56

macrumors member
Original poster
Mar 9, 2022
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If I look at the screen time on my 14 Pro it says I’ve clocked up four and a half hours today. But adding up every single apps’ time gives me about 3 hours.

If I look at eight o’clock this morning the graph shows almost an hour of use with a grey bar. This is obviously apps not falling into the top three ‘other’ category. But I wasn’t even using the phone.

I’ve tried rebooting, toggling screen time on and off, switching the AOD off makes no difference, I’ve logged out of iCloud and there are no old devices contributing to the figures.

How hard can it be to make this work properly?

Any ideas what’s going on?
 

Craigf56

macrumors member
Original poster
Mar 9, 2022
49
38
And today I’ve been on for 30 mins but screen time is showing three hours? Anyone else got this problem?
 

jog_ch

macrumors newbie
Jan 2, 2023
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0
Hey! I have exactly the same issue with my iPhone 14 Pro. Since I have it, my screen time increases a lot! My real screen time (of usage) is about 2 hours, but it is reported as an average of 5.5h.

On a day, if I add all time details, the sum is exactly the colored bars. So what are the gray bars?!

My main suspect is always-on display! As there are absolutely no gray bars during the night (my iPhone is in sleep mode). But I can’t be 100% sure about that.
 

jog_ch

macrumors newbie
Jan 2, 2023
2
0
I will try turning off always-on display for a week and see if it changes something.
 

AdamSmulik

macrumors newbie
Apr 3, 2023
1
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Hey! I have exactly the same issue with my iPhone 14 Pro. Since I have it, my screen time increases a lot! My real screen time (of usage) is about 2 hours, but it is reported as an average of 5.5h.

On a day, if I add all time details, the sum is exactly the colored bars. So what are the gray bars?!

My main suspect is always-on display! As there are absolutely no gray bars during the night (my iPhone is in sleep mode). But I can’t be 100% sure about that.
Hey i have the same problem. iPhone 14 pro and i finally found someone with the same problem. I think it’s the always on display because when I have it turned off it shows correct. And when I have always on display turned on it show incorrect. But I want my always on display it’s mad
 

marian86

macrumors newbie
Oct 26, 2021
3
5
I have same experience. When always-on is switched off, it is working correctly.

Any workaround or fix? I tried reset my phone and configure everything from beginning, but still same.
 

gerball

macrumors member
May 27, 2010
30
2
It does indeed seem to be the always on display that's to blame. How can this bug still be around?? Crazy
 
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