Parent Control- Screen time not working for tiktok and Episode APP

Small win for the parents who are frustrated with iPhone screen time not working for Tik Tok...

In the Tik Tok app, go to settings then digital wellbeing. The app has a built in 60 min screen time management feature and content restriction mode that needs a passcode to be turned off. Hopefully that helps

This has been driving me nuts. You have to use the child’s iphone and change the screen time settings there. It can take 24 hours to see changes so be patient. I had no allowed apps but my child’s iphone was overriding that setting (tiktok and youtube were ‘always allowed’ on my son’s phone). Also make sure to ‘Don’t allow’ any settings changes.

I fixed my daughter iPhone from TikTok not working when Screen Time was set. This was because Region was set to "Canada". Many kids changed their region from USA to Canada due to TikTok App was banned in the US at one point.

By changing the Region from Canada to United States. Settings > General > Language & Region = United States.

Now Screen Time for TikTok works again. Hope this fix your problem.

I fixed my daughter iPhone from TikTok not working when Screen Time was set. This was because Region was set to "Canada". Many kids changed their region from USA to Canada due to TikTok App was banned in the US at one point.

By changing the Region from Canada to United States. Settings > General > Language & Region = United States.

Now Screen Time for TikTok works again. Hope this fix your problem.

Same here my daughter has just spent 31hrs this week on tictok, while i thought it was restricted. I restrict the whole phone(other than calls and text) to 3 hrs a day.

i have now set up a separate timer on that app and it seems to work

I found a fix!! Well at least a hack that I stumbled on that is working.

I was having the same issue as others, when applying a time limit of 1 hour of TikTok on my kids phone and seeing them log 2-6 hours a day.

FIX: On my iPhone, under the settings for screen time app limit under your child’s name, I simply changed the App Limit for TikTok by clicking “Edit List”, the click “Add” and adding a second app to the limit. Mine now shows “TikTok & Instagram = 1.5 hrs”.

For the last week I’ve noticed that it’s been working with my kid logging exactly some split of 1.5 hrs between the 2 apps.

I tested it by one day removing the Instagram app from the grouped time limit and sure enough my kid logged 4+ hours on TikTok that day.

Hope this works for you!

We had set a 1hr limit for TikTok and Snapchat. However usage (mainly TikTok) was between 2 and 4 hours. TikTok and Snapchat were not 'allowed apps' either. Screen time is running on our daughter's phone and the usage reported there matches our parental phone. We have followed a post which advised disabling screen time, restarting the phone, and reenabling screen time. We will see tomorrow if it has worked. However, judging by the number of parents with this problem we are not too hopeful. Will post what happens.

I set up time restrictions on her iPad applications on EVERY app except her school app. She doesn’t know the password. I changed the password for her to purchase items yet she is still buy Robux!

She said nothing has changed on her iPad because I expected some mad screaming. And nothing has changed! Why set this up when it doesn’t work? And uninstalling and reinstalling should not be necessary.

this situation is ridiculous.

i had the same issue before, I hope this works for you guys. When you first setup screen time it will ask if this is your phone or your kids phone, instead of selecting your kids phone select your phone and then screen time should work on all the app. For me tiktok and Roblox wasn’t getting limited with screen time and app limit. By doing this it’s now greyout for downtime and screen time.

Thanks Billy, I don’t remember selecting my phone or kids phone. We have Family Sharing setup, so they already know that it is a kid’s phone. Do you remember where the question was. I did it through my phone but maybe I should be on each individual phone?

I don’t have family sharing setup so I can’t answer that question. But when you fist setup screen time it will ask you who’s device it is. If you just disabled all screen time setting and start again it should ask you who’s device it is.

I’m having the same issue with screen time:

tiktok and snap chat keep vanishing off my daughter’s app limits list. Nothing has worked to rectify the situation. It is a significant problem.

Any solution would be sincerely appreciated

thank you

I know right! You would think Apple would sort this out. It works on one of my kids phones but not the other three. I have gone over the settings 50 thousand times and they are identical. Just so soul destroying that you think the kids can’t use anything and they can.

All Tik Tok version have Digital Wellbeing. It should be a personal account so just like an usual one. Go to Setting and there should be the option "Digital Wellbeing" which will lock the app after the time expires and will let you add a passcode. Maybe google will tell you better where that option is or YT tutorials. Go to the Tik Tok profile. Select the 3 dots up in the right corner. Go to Content & Activity section and see "Digital Wellbeing" as being the 5th option. If this does not work or you dont have it, maybe you should change the account from Personal to creator. You can change it back anytime you want

Yes these steps just worked for me. The other trick was setting back up screen time on child’s phone. I wonder if having the WiFi parental app Circle causes an issue as that can stop WiFi to the child.

What a pain Apple!!!