Roblox App Not Affected by Screen Time

If you don’t want your kids playing Roblox then you need to number one be a parent. If they’re not listening take their device ?

secondly - if you change the age limits to anything less than age 12, then they can’t even play anything within the Roblox app downloaded or not. So try that.

just relax and do the things.

Brittany,

Perhaps you missed the part of my post explaining that the only reason the child has a phone is because it is DME? The phone allows us to try and help extend the life of our child (with T1D management) without needing to be within Bluetooth range of the sensors (which would be the alternative to him having no phone).

The phone acts as a hub to pass this data to central servers so we can receive it on our phones. Unfortunately, the required medical apps are 12+ so the workaround of using 4+ is worthless because then we would need to be bluetooth-range tethered our child 24/7…which is ridiculous when the root cause is because screen time is *not* working as it is advertised or intended to work!

Apple, please fix screen time. Or at least alert your team to dedicate resources to try.

Everyone else in this thread may be able to make 4+ work or take away devices for basic parenting. Unfortunately, we cannot.

Apple......hello......hello....are you listening?

Actually, no , Apple is not listening here. Well, I modify that and point out that one of the first responses was from an Apple specialist who said to contact them using another method. This is an end-user to end-user forum. Users like you being answered by users like you. However, apparently none of us has a solution. If you want Apple to listen then please send them feedback through:

Product Feedback - Apple

Apple may not respond but your comment will be read. Remember, the squeaky wheel...

Brittany, this is a technical issue, why you think your judgmental and self righteous response belongs here?

I came here because I’m having the same issue, seeing if there’s a solution, and I find your useless post.

you don’t know anything about what we do as parents, if you don’t have a solution, abstain.

wyo_runner,

Thank you for keeping us posted. We recommend that you reach out to us here so we can take a closer look into the issue: Get Support

Take care!

Were you able to get this resolved? Same issue here.

https://gamequitters.com/how-to-enable-roblox-parental-controls/ this might help

This is the same response I have received from Apple over the past 2 years of trying to fix the same problem. No more “we understand as we are working on it”. I want to see this fixed without apology so that this app works on the user preferences that the parents control.

This is an issue. Really this is the tip of an iceberg seeing as this is a top game and many kids are using it. I have three iPads and They all have this problem. They all have the latest OS and the latest Roblox. This is the only app/game that disregards screentime of the many I have.

I’m not looking for a workaround, just for the issue to be fixed after many months. This game should be taken down from the AppStore if it can’t get it’s act together. If a big developer like this can’t get it right then who can.

Completely agree with your frustration & have the exact same issue. Internet provider modem/router is too watered down to let their end-users restrict sites easily (thanks Xfinity). I also think parents need to hold Roblox accountable since they are the makers of the app... I'm sure they are aware of this issue which makes me wonder if it is intentional.

Recently, I feel like my kids are disabling screen time by sending multiple requests over and over again and basically jamming the system when I go back to screen time on my iPhone it shows that it’s not enabled for their tablets. This is another problem.

Having same problem with Snapchat on my son’s phone. He definitely did something once to get around it but now no matter what I do — reset the phone, reset all settings, etc. this app is completely immune to screen time. I have tried everything.

Apple!!! Roblox App Not Affected by Screen Time

please sort this out. We need to be able to set screen time on all of our kids phones.

currently Roblox is the main culprit but also have issues with FaceApp.

Same here. Roblox and Minecraft are both issues. My kids should be able to use the apps up to the limit I set. The problem has nothing to do with the developers. It’s solely a poorly constructed control feature that I have spent too many hours trying to manage. Very disappointed in apples developers.

This kind of response, over and over from Apple, isn't helpful. I've called in and spent hours on the phone with tech support, and they even escalated it up to a senior engineer. And it seemed like they'd never encountered the problem before (which clearly from this thread, they have.) It was never solved and I spent at least 9 hours on it. It really can't be that hard. Screentime should be straightforward, and yet I agree with the other posters that it's inconsistent at best. You should be able to set the settings and leave it and not worry about it, but this isn't the case at all. It's very frustrating.