Roblox App Not Affected by Screen Time

This is an issue. Roblox is the biggest offender of robbing my child’s personality. He gets short, he’s addicted, and he can’t put it down. Therapists say apps are responsible for impulsive behavior, Roblox and YouTube shorts are the worst. How do I tell my child he can’t use his iOS device for homework or speaking to friends, or calling us if he has any trouble or needs a ride? Because Apple can’t even create a protection for our children??? Apple, this is for you to fix please. Parents need your help navigating our children’s digital lives. Draconian measures unfortunately are the only resort. No tech.

Try turning off “share across devices” on the screen time menu. It fixed the issues for me.

Been having this same frustrating problem with my children’s devices and Roblox since a year ago, whereby it just suddenly stop locking and still there seems to be no resolution from Apple!

Would really love to hear from someone who has managed to get this to work again.

CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM

This is a continuous problem. It is still happening. My constructive feedback is that I have been to the help desk multiple times and no one has a fix for this problem. I have tried innovating and found absolutely no way to stop Roblox. It clearly has an hour glass, shows a 1-minute limit, but functions regularly after 1-minute on every pickup.

The only suggestion given (tongue in cheek) by a help bar person was to get rid of the phone entirely—but we cannot as it was obtained and functions primarily as a DME. As such, this screen time glitch is actually a medical issue.

My last post was deleted because it was “not constructive” (most likely because it mentioned class action?). I assume this post will be wiped as well for even containing the words, but this is the most constructive criticism I can muster.

I have reread the terms and conditions. This post does not violate any of the listed terms. However, the last term is quite Orwellian, and it allows any post remove for any reason. Is it 2022 or 1984 here?

Apple!!! Roblox App Not Affected by Screen Time

please sort this out. We need to be able to set screen time on all of our kids phones.

currently Roblox is the main culprit but also have issues with FaceApp.

Hi wyo_runner, We appreciate you reaching out to us. We understand that Screen Time is not working on your child's device for Roblox app.

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I have found a *roundabout* way of blocking Roblox whenever needed. Change allowed Apps age to 9+ (in Content Restrictions in Content & Privacy Restrictions) and Roblox disappears completely. It is a hassle having to do it, but when screen time limit kicks in and all apps (apart from bloody Roblox!) get blocked, might as well take the extra three steps and change app limit to 9+. And - voila! - Roblox can't be used.

Completely agree with your frustration & have the exact same issue. Internet provider modem/router is too watered down to let their end-users restrict sites easily (thanks Xfinity). I also think parents need to hold Roblox accountable since they are the makers of the app... I'm sure they are aware of this issue which makes me wonder if it is intentional.

I had the same issue for controlling the kids time on Roblox and it was fixed through going to the Roblox settings and enabled the Parent Control. After that setup the screen time has considering/managing it too.

I was having the same problem. I realized that Roblox was listed in the ‘always allowed’ section of the settings. Once I deselected that Roblox app in this setting, the time limit immediately worked for Roblox, much to my son’s distress.

Total *** for not explaining how you “sorted your issue”.

I have a Eero Router and it has a subscription service for a firewall that can block websites and put devices on time limits. You might want to look into a firewall program for your network that you could customize the limits that way.

So very strange but make sure you turn on screen time using the device you want to control. When using my iPhone to turn it on Roblox is still available. When I do it from my Son's iPad it is blocked. It's almost as if the config stored in my iCloud is corrupted somehow, but when enabled locally on the iPad it works. Will see if it sticks......