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

Make sure you add all apps that you want to disable separately for e.g Youtube, Safari & Chrome and more importantly make sure block at end of the limit is enable (Switched ON to green) as shown in the screenshot below.

+1 for #ProductManagerFailure

Apple, pls turn off the ‘one more minute’ feature or make it at least configurable for parents. It’s a no go that kids can override the screentime restrictions so easily.

I had a chat with support today 12/9- there is still no solution to this issue and the person i chatted with suggested I contact one of the engineers and that they read all suggestions. Praying this gets resolved quickly to make screentime useful again.

I would like my son’s phone to be disabled except for the “always allowed apps” from 9pm-6am most days...check

I want to allow for 3 hours from 6am-9pm. This is where I use the “add limits”....check

BUT-the limit isn’t legit because he can just add a minute add a minute add a minute..........EPIC FAIL!

Regarding the suggestions to add a time limit for 1-minute, that doesn’t work when you aren’t trying to disable everything at once. Good concept, but it doesn’t work when you already have a limit set.

What would be GREAT is for parents to be able to select if we want the “one more minute” option-or even give us a time frame (so, it gives a warning when 5 minutes is coming to be done and we allow them to REQUEST 5 more minutes-or however long-and we grant that each time, based on the situation). With this we should also be allowed to NOT have it as an option for kiddos to request additional time at all.

more than frustrated right now-which seems to be how MANY families feel on here!

Fully agree that this 1 min. Madness should have a toggle to turn it off! I understand there are scenarios where this option is usefull, but to let every app have standalone 1 min is design fail. And yes, my 8 year old now is trying to go around his timelimit with 1min hole :/ so just add a **** trigger apple - for all parents.

I was told by apple that if it is no longer a child account, 13 and under, they can hit "one more limit" for an unlimited amount of time. If they have a child account, 13 and under, then they can only hit "one more minute" a singel time. A senior support staff told me that is how they intend for it to work and are not working on a fix. The only work around would be to change your kids age to be 13 or youger. I have yet to test this....

Tenisha- what am I missing? I allow kids 2 hours of screentime. I just don't want them going unlimted after that by hitting "one more minute." What you are suggesting will limit them to just one minute per day on the apps, correct? But then cannot they still hit "one more minute"

I know how to set up the limit. Aren't you just setting up the limit? How does that eliminate hitting "one more minute?" Your help is appreiated.

Thanks,

Workaround - I put most of apps that my kids don't' use in 'Always allowed' so those apps don't require password. Then every morning I go MYSELF to screen time app and use the 'one more minute' option and for rest of the day screen time requires password

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

This will only help if you don’t want other time limits

replying to another here also-they can only ask for one more minute - but they can do this for EVERY APP-my kiddo is pretty smart and realized he can then get about another hour of game play, even if it’s only a minute per game.

This will work if you don’t want them to keep hitting the app for one more minute one more minute one more minute bc my kid is Also smart that’s how I figured it out now he has a press in the code to get one more minute

At that point you can just completely block the app. If you want to give kids more than 1 minute on an app that solution does not work. It appears to only happen on accounts for over 13 years old. I am told under 13 they can only hit "one more minute" once.

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.

well yes your child can use the one more minute button but they can only tap it once per day for each app so they can really only be on there device maybe 5 more minutes than usual. is that really so bad

This has been such a frustrating feature to come across as a parent. Apple @Apple #apple please resolve this. At least place an option in the parents phone to choose if they want this function or not on their childs phone. Please please please.