Screen time incorrectly showing 24 hours of usage each day.

Turning your phone off and on, and or opening up a new webpage in the safari app can resolve the issue. From what I’ve observed this happens when apps try to open a web page within their own app. Sometimes this tricks the phone into thinking it’s always running for some reason. Doesn’t affect batter or network activity. It’s just a bug.

this issue went away after applying the next OS patch

I've had the same issue. First it was the Safari Browser showing constant usage for 10 straight hours on the website Business Insider. I reset my phone and that fixed the bug. Then a few days later it did it again only this time it said I was using the Medium app (Which is not installed on my device) all day long which, of course, I wasn't. I read an article in Medium earlier that day and it apparently tricked my phone into thinking I stayed on Medium all day long. Definitely a bug in ios. Hoping for a fix soon.

Try this:

Settings> safari> clear history and website data

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Same thing here - redeemed a gift card yesterday on drop (app where you use a link for certain merchants and get points to collect for a gift card) and woke up this morning to screen time saying my phone was running for 7+ hours straight yesterday (roughly since redeeming the gift card) and literally all night/morning today. The gift card provider vcdelivery.com was marked as running on safari that whole time so I put a 1min app limit on it which is helping so far but I’m not satisfied with masking the issue like that. I did just update iOS the other day so maybe that has something to do with it? I’m seeing some other Jan ‘21 responses here too.

I’ve been having the exact same bug with YouTube. It was happening a lot and then I updater to iOS 14.3 and the problem went away for a few days. Then it came back, I even deleted the YouTube app, set a limit to only an hour of usage a day; but nothing fixes it. Screen Time shows the YouTube app being active 24/7 despite the app not even being installed on my phone.

After trying 14.6 I will say it has gotten a bit better for me but I will still see occasional hours that show a full 60 minutes of usage with no supporting apps or categories to even close to account for it. When cross referencing the same hour in the batter setting view there are no apps running in the background or anything. Overall usage time is still an inaccurate metric for me and basically pointless. I submitted feedback to apple and suggest everyone else do the same so this can get addressed for good.

Apple is not here, we are just fellow users.

Your options are to contact Apple Support directly:

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and/or express your displeasure here:

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I have a similar problem. It shows that I have been on twitter for 13 hours and other for 7 and it is still going up. I never installed Twitter with this apple id, but I did visit a Twitter page from a Reddit article .

Hello I have same issues here in my text messages it says im using my phone from 6 am to 10 am which is I’m still sleeping .. why is this happening ?? I’m so confused and I feel someone is using my phone.

Have same issue. But have no YouTube app installed ... looks weird

Same issue here showing Safari running for 13 hours straight overnight for some reason.

Same bug here. If I open a website it then shows up as being in active use for 12+ hours,

I've had the same issue on my new MacBook Pro 13 inch, too. As of the last 48 hours, it has gone away. I did nothing to change it. We'll see how long it lasts. The 24 hours a day was there for weeks.