Lag/Delay using Screen Time Since iOS 14

It doesn't look like anyone has any work around for this. I'm just glad I'm not alone and that is likely an issue with the latest update. It is frustrating that Apple doesn't seem to be acknowledging that it is a problem. Part of the reason I use their products is because the screen time has been a huge benefit with my phone addicted kids.

I've also found that one of my kids is able to text at all hours, even though his texting is supposed to be limited to just parents. My other kid is still locked. I've checked settings on everyone's phones and they are consistent.

Yes!! This is an absolute nightmare, especially with remote school. I need to be able to quickly change ScreenTime settings. My daughter has missed classes because I haven’t been able to make changes quickly enough. I notice it across iPad Pro, iPhone xsmax and MacBooks. Please help!!!!

I'm pretty sure Apple is gonna work on a fix, just have patience and it will be fixed because you don't know how many other things they have rn so just have patience and fix it. And I'm pretty sure you can change screen time settings from your children's phone as well.

This has been an issue for my kids as well. Wiping my device isn’t ideal at all.

I hope apple works their magic.

the app approval purchase screen is white and in settings I’m unable to get into screen time. Ok it took forever to load but got in.

ios 14 and onward.

Yesss!!! This works for me too!

An addendum...

For users with Apple Watches that cannot approve the time from their watches, try this:

When the request comes through, Hit the approve on your Apple watch for what ever time you want.

Then immediate go to your iPhone and approve the request also.

After you do this, you should be able to approve requests from your watch for now on.

Sounds like the watch just needed authenticate from the iPhone in order to start approving requests.

This helpful to know even your iphone X is affected. My 14 year old daughter told me it's because we all need a new iphone and Apple did it on purpose to slow down our "older" phones! I'm going to buy her a brand new Mercedes to drive to school with a work permit and the latest iphone 12. Then everything will be cool, right? Ha! I have an old soffa in a couple of rooms with a cover on it just to help her know that everything doesn't need to be new even though I can afford it.

ipress and this is all I get almost an entire minute before it moves on to the next screen. Followed by the same when I press my child’s name. THEN the kicker is when I finally loads it restarts every restriction I had in place. Causing me to re do it. And if I am lucky it will apply. This isn’t the case directly on my daughters phone though. I have to directly apply the restrictions on it. Which means lots of “Mom, mom, mom, mom, mom”

Yes. Me too. It takes like a minute on my case.

Same issue, on IPhoneX, clearly worse right after iOS14 install. I cannot respond to screen time requests without crashing and/or then slow response at each step.

not only does it delay but I will make changes and they won't get reflected at all. It takes me several times to make the change before it accepts it since the update to 14. I am on 14.0.1

Agreed, this is such a pain. I wish Apple would acknowledge this bug and let us know when it will be fixed.

I reset my iPhone 11 settings and I still can’t access screen time setting without it crashing. So my kids are just livid

nevermind

I saw your original reply. Rude. Just rude. settle down.

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