Screen Time not blocking/affecting Chrome after iOs 14 update

Chrome is impervious to Apple Screen Time. My kids "need" it for pandemic distance learning-- The school district says so, and it's their gateway to the internet. Screen Time limits aren't working. Screen Time fails to live up to its promise and I wish Apple would return the ability to limit user time on a specific device... Like what used to work great on "Mojave."

Below are my daughter's Screen Time readouts... Clearly, the 2-Hr Limit on Google Chrome isn't working... Which means any other website I've set a limit on (Tiki's Tok, Instagram, Discord) are also not working, because Screen time can't block Chrome.

Fail.

I'm both happy and depressed to have finally found this thread.

Happy because I've been having the same problem for months and this is the first time I've seen it flagged.

And depressed because there is no solution and even worse nothing from Apple on fixing, nor even acknowledging the issue.

Like JohnnyW2001 posted earlier, the only thing I've found that helps is uninstalling Chrome and blocking the App Store app.

However, when my son needs a new app and I've allowed the App Store to get it, I often forget to block it again.

And then later on I find him on his phone after the time restrictions and realise he's downloaded Chrome again to get around them!

There's no conspiracy or even conflicts of interest. It seems the developers of Chromium (which is an open source project, so not dictated by Google) planned to FULLY support "Downtime" the same way Safari does (ie. on a website by website basis). So they had the app removed from the blanket blocked list, but they also haven't finished adding the intended full support yet.

That's why it's the new full support is there as an experimental feature, but not fully turned on yet. I think they were obviously a bit premature is getting Chrome removed from the iOS list. But maybe they needed to do that in order to test it? I don't know, but basically it's down to the Chromium devs, and this probably isn't their highest priority. (Which is super annoying for someone like me who used that feature every day.)

At least regarding YouTube, you can control downtime of the YouTube app and prevent access to YouTube via any browser by going to Content & Privacy Restrictions -> Content Restrictions -> Web Content:  Never allow browser access to "youtube.com"

I have done this by accessing screen time on my child’s device, then it will block safari and chrome, but won’t do it from my phone. Thus also affected Amazon and EBay

You're using a Screen Time Passcode, right? Otherwise it just informs you that your limit is reached and allows you to continue.

The best you can do is set a 1 min limit on Chrome for each day of the week which will apply during downtime (assuming you’ve selected to block apps outside of downtime).

Uinstall Chrome and then block access to the App Store.

'Down Time' in and of itself, is a restriction for an entire device in iOS, hence "Down" time (allowing exceptions, e.g., the Phone app). Simply, if you add certain websites to the SCREEN Time's "NEVER allow" lists, Chrome WILL allow them (whether using iOS or MacOS). Screen Time's "apply across devices" implies the sum usage will be limited on both iOS and MacOS... But, it isn't, especially with Chrome.

It's not Apple, it's the Chromium (Chrome) Developers.

Write them here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1162695

Then block the App Store app so they can't download Chrome.

I have the same problem here, there is no Chrome or Safari in “Always Allowed” list, and both can keep using after Downtime. It’s obviously a bug.

And, both Safari and Chrome used to be under productivity category but now they are not belonged to any category.

Typing in 100+ "allowed" websites into a list, as opposed to typing in the one you want restricted is NOT "working." It's like saying as long as you're pointed down hill your car will always move on its own.

The Screen Time framework gives applications the ability to take action when a user is going to exceed their allotted screen time or to note changes in the setting, but at some point the operating system should also take responsibility.

The fact that iOS knows the app has been running for longer than "allowed" is proof of that, but I do not know if the framework mandates that the App should quit when it exceeds the allotted time or if the operating system is supposed to kill it.

Remember that Google Chrome is just a user interface atop Apple's WebKit interface, as all iOS browsers are required to use WebKit for rendering and WebKit theoretically should be aware of the amount of screen time used.

To all the Apple apologists...

Unless the interface advises that the "promise" of Screen Time may not work with certain applications i.e., any "blocked" website (discord, reddit, youtube... pornhub!) will function just fine on ANYTHING other than the Safari browser then... It's Apple's responsibility to either correct the issue, or make it known its functionality doesn't deliver on its promise, and the comfort a false belief in that promise may provide.