How to disable “one more minute” on Screen Time?

Screen Time was a great initiative, but please Apple, with the next update can you allow parents the ability to disable the 'One more minute' option. Screen time is effectively useless without this function as children just repeatedly tap the 'One more minute' button and go over the allotted time by as much as they want to. As mentioned by other parents, many children do not have the self control to limit the time they are using their device which was why Screen Time was previously a good way of helping them regulate use on an electronic device.

It has baffled me for a year now as to how a company with so many young people and those with kids have not foreseen this workaround that our kids, from technology inept parents, have figured out in minutes of using their iPad. My simple solution is only charging up the iPads for a limited time so they run flat after an hour... probably to the detriment of the battery’s long term life.

I figured it out!!!!add time limits to one minute on all categories and make sure you put lock on after downtime so the kid will only have one chance at the “one minute option”

I figured it out!!!!add time limits to one minute on all categories and make sure you put lock on after downtime so the kid will only have one chance at the “one minute option”

I think you can solve it by going into the “app limit group” (eg social) and click “block at the end of limit “

Got this issue too, one of my kids is having the 'One more minute' option on her iPhone7 iOS13 which she can click over and over again for multiple apps at any time she likes....

Apple please fix this, we need a way to disable this 'One more minute' option, now screen time is useless........

I can’t agree more. Screen time was working well until this was introduced. Now I’m back to manually monitoring everything. This feature needed much more parent testing and feedback before making this change. #ProductManagerFailure

I can verify, this is true. I JUST tested this. My children are 5 and 3 and so I opened an app that’s been disabled and hit “one more min” and after that minute I tried again and the option was gone. This feature was added to give children a last minute to hurry and save their game or what have you. It’s a decent feature that people are not giving it a full thought. I don’t know about the over 13 thing as my children are not, but I can definitely see where that would be a problem. At that rate Apple should add it to the setting to be able to be turned on and off

I figured it out!!!!add time limits to one minute on all categories and make sure you put lock on after downtime so the kid will only have one chance at the “one minute option” so after the limit the kid will be require a password

Yeah, once. Per app! If they have 30 games they can play for an extra 30 minutes. 1 minute for each game, but still. My 6 year old just discovered this loophole. And his iCloud account is correctly set to 6 years old.

tjfinan wrote:

I would like to echo all the other comments and ask why Apple at least does not give the option to remove this feature.

This is a user-to-user forum. No one here can answer why Apple has made this decision. Apple isn't reading here.

irst, remove the 1 minute request. Second, do so with leaving the ability to use phone/facetime for emergency. This does not seem that hard.

Did you submit this feedback to Apple? The more people who do, the more likely they are to make the change. The feedback link is in the post immediately above yours.

I would like to understand Apple's logic with this, but there has been no response here.

Nor will there be. As noted, this is a user-to-user forum. You can try using the Contact Support link at the top right of every page. However, it is unlikely that the people in support will know why Apple has made this decision.

My son(under threat of losing phone completely) confessed he has been sneaking Snapchat (which we do not allow him to have) by going to one more minute. He gets on App Store(which is normally blocked because I have adding and deleting apps blocked in restrictions section), gets app out of family share (permission to add is not needed because his sister has it) he then downloads it and screen time is not on it because it’s been recently downloaded. I have screen time set for 1min for Snapchat as it is because I knew he was sneaking and trying to get it. I have Snapchat.com blocked and safari in general for that matter. I can’t stop him with the one minute feature. In that one minute everything is open and apparently no time limit exists for an app added AFTER the time limit is met. The only way I knew he was using the app is he uses this same “feature” to go back and delete the app when he’s done. I check his phone every night and there is no sign of Snapchat anywhere, yet my screen time usage on my phone shows that he has been on it. I’ve had to threaten to take away phone entirely if I see that he has been using Snapchat at all. I think they need to hire a teenager to help them create screen time. These kids are much craftier than even the young adults working for Apple! I don’t think they can keep asking for a minute for same app. Even when I set a limit for Facebook for myself, I get the one minute option one time and then it requires password. I think they are simply deleting and reinstalling.

Hello? Where in Settings is the disable option? I can not find this option in Screentime tab.

This ridiculous and needs to be fixed! What’s the point of setting limits if they can just keep adding a minute!

The ‘one more minute’ feature needs to be turned off - immediately! It makes the whole screentime feature useless for parents who want to control their kids time with their devices.