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

intrepidyorkshire wrote:

It’s absolutely ridiculous that there is still no solution to this almost a year since some of these comments. What a ludicrous feature from Apple. GIVE parents the option to not allow ‘1 more minute’!

Have you let Apple know your thoughts?

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

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

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

Maybe Apple should stop calling this Apple Support Communities? As when you see ‘Apple Support’ you assume it’s..... Apple Support.

instead it’s a forum full of mostly disgruntled customers that Apple want to do their job for them helping each other. Whilst most of the time it’s dreadful usability items like this that Apple just ignore / pay no attention to for years.

This particular one has done it for me. Android is my entire family’s future now, I’ve had enough.

intrepidyorkshire wrote:

Maybe Apple should stop calling this Apple Support Communities? As when you see ‘Apple Support’ you assume it’s..... Apple Support.

Exactly what this forum is is explained in the Terms of Use to which we all agreed when we registered.

7 Apple may respond to questions but does not formally provide technical support on the Site.

Apple Support Communities Use Agreement - Apple Community

Android is my entire family’s future now, I’ve had enough.

You should absolutely by the phone that best meets your needs. Personally, I'd recommend phones by Motorola if that's an option for you. They tend to have fantastic battery life and (at least they used to) have less bloatware than say, a Samsung. Also, less history of exploding

I feel like the one minute timer runs out to fast like its barely a minute and when i watch a movie my phone turns off before the time its supposed to turn off why? i just want to finish my movie and i have to wait till tomorrow to finnish my movie and its really annoying and i cant turn off the time limit because i dont know the password neither does the person who put it on my phone please fix this

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.

I'm having exactly the same problem. Kid keeps on requesting more time every minute and although I'm not approving anything, he is able to request more time over and over again. All he has to do is keep on requesting it every minute and he can play without any limits. So annoyed with this feature.

I hate one more minute!! Oh!! But my child loves it bc Screen time is pointless now!! change the name to “watch your phone normally but press ‘1 more minute’ every minute and stay up past your bedtime” >: (

I have exactly the same problem. Since adding "one more minute" we now have a fight to pull the iPad away as we get the repetitive tapping of "one more minute"

Software designers need to have kids.

Please Apple Program Designers can you fix this before many of us switch to Android.

Whoever designed the “one more minute” feature obviously doesn’t have kids and whoever managed the product obviously didn’t user test this option with anyone who has kids...the primary user of ScreenTime!

How could anyone think this is a good idea, and not even allow an option to disable it or expire after the first attempt.

ScreenTime is already poorly designed, this is just the nail in the coffin as it is literally the antithesis of monitoring and management of kids ScreenTime.

I have a child with ADHD. She is perfectly happy to play one minute of each of the 40+ apps on her ipad if she is unhappy with the time we set for screen time for the night.

"One more minute" is fine, and actually ideal for a child with ADHD. It should apply to all apps, not per app.

Couldn’t agree more. Used the screen time feature to limit apps overnight so that my son could listen to sleep relaxation. However caught him watching YouTube using the one more minute function. This needs to be able to be disabled for screen time to be useful.

For the Apple’s developers and customer care, pls. add an option in the next iOS update for a parent to be able disable ”One minute more” function. As you have seen from this discussion this hidden feature is causing issues for family screen time management and may be harmful for a child’s growth and furthermore Apple’s Sustainability image.

I’m also having this same problem and it’s driving me insane. You can put downtime on yet they can still spend one minute on every single app. This is not useful at all. When will a fix be added to take this option off and allow total blocking of apps for parents.

I posted on this thread about a year ago and it is still an issue. It’s an utter joke that Apple can’t resolve this huge flaw in their tech?

in addition if a child goes into settings and simply changes their time zone (as my child did in downtime!) they can just use the tablet normally!

Also in addition, he found if you go to YouTube and zoom in, it also bypasses the downtime!

terrible, Steve Jobs would never have let this happen under his control. Very sad.