Exclude "Now Playing" from Downtime

Hello,

I've set up Downtime on my iMac (Mac OS X Catalina 10.15.2). However, "Now Playing" on the notification sidebar (that you slide in from the right with two fingers) tells me that I have reached my time limit.

I don't see where to exclude "Now Playing" from Downtime, though I've checked the exclusion list in System Preferences.

iMac 27", macOS 10.15

Posted on Jan 6, 2020 5:27 AM

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1 reply

dialabrain

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Jan 6, 2020 5:47 AM in response to Gryphon

I don't use Screen Time so not sure how helpful I can be. However, "Now Playing" is a Notification Center Widget, not an app per se so you may not be able to add it or exclude it from Downtime.

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