Roblox App Not Affected by Screen Time

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.

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.

I had the exact same issue till yesterday: The Roblox, Youtube, Youtube Kids, Minecraft could not be blocked by the Screen Time on my kid's iPad Pro with the latest iOS 16. No matter what I did with screen time remotely or locally, the issue could not be solved.

The quick solution I did to make it working today:

Turn Off Screen Time (remotely) -> Sign Out kid's Apple ID (In my kid's iPad) -> Sign In kid's Apple ID (In my kid's iPad) -> Turn On Screen Time (remotely) -> Check the Always Allowed page and remove the unwanted apps

In the last step, I found those apps appeared in the Always Allowed page, which I could not find before signing out Apple ID. After I removed them, the screen time started working with these games.

If your kid can ignore the time limit from his own iPad, you may try the following:

Turn Off Screen Time (In the kid's iPad) -> Turn On Screen Time (remotely)

Note: always use your own devices to turn on the screen time for your kid's iPad.

If still there is some issue, try to log out Apple App Store and then re-login in you kid's iPad.

Hope this help.

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.

I was having this issue. I was unable to get Roblox and a few other apps to work even after I had them on the approval list. How I fixed it was by turning screentime off, turning it back on and changing the age limit to a higher age.

I HATE SCREEN TIME EITHER TAKE IT OFF OR IDK OK BUT PlS PLS PLS WITH A CHERRY ON TOP TAKE IT OFF AND I THINK I SPEAK FOR ALL KIDS WHEN I SAY APPLE BAN SCREEN TIME

Thank you

-your fellow child, Thea

I tried the suggestion of signing out of my kids Apple ID on her iPad and then signing back in and it worked. After re-enabling screen time from my iPhone, Roblox is now blocked when I turn on down time. I’m not sure how it got to this point but hope it doesn’t happen again.

As of today screentime still doesn’t affect Roblox…I have noticed that that when screentime is ON Roblox remains available. When screentime is OFF Roblox not available. A work around is to change the age setting to 9+ which hides the app (regardless of screentime is on or off) So in summary; turn on screentime and change age to 9+ to stop Roblox been played when screentime is on. Do the opposite to make it available (turn off screentime and change the age setting to 12+).

Turn off Screentime, Sign out of Apple ID, Sign back in to Apple ID, Turn on Screentime, set limits for Robox, Roblox is now under Screentime limits again. However sometimes when you adjust Screentime settings then Roblox may not be affected again so you need to repeat the reset process again.

I also had this issue but realised that Roblox was somehow in the Always Allowed list, meaning that any limits are ignored.

You can check this on the Parent device by going to:

Settings > Family > (Childs Name) > Screen Time > Always Allowed then simply remove it from the ALLOWED APPS list.

This worked for me, hope it does for you too!

What's maddening about this is that it is incosistent, and some days/weeks it doesn't work (either because the screen times are not reported correctly, or just because it doesn't get stopped even when going over the limit) and some days it works just fine, even for Roblox, on both iOS and macOS. On macOS it sometimes has a weird issue where if RobloxApp is fullscreen when the limit hits, it will bounce back and forth between time limit screen and the app, never letting one be clicked into before the other takes over, and usually necessitating a hard reboot. I am going to try rebooting all the devices at the same time (including mine, which I saw somewhere else as a suggestion); I'd prefer not to have to sign out and sign back into iCloud accounts but that might be necessary too.

This is a major problem for us. We don't allow our 10-year old to be on this game for too long... long enough for fun, but we try to limit it before it affects him negatively. This is the way of the present with parenthood. These kids want to play games, but we need to help curb it to ensure they have proper development.

Apple needs to address this issue. It's your product, your design to have parental controls. Roblox is one of the biggest games for kids and the only application that bypasses screen time. It's not fair to the kids or to the parents. It's hard to blame my son for going past his time b/c he's just a kid and I know how fun games can be.

Please fix this issue. It's driving us nuts and the only solution is to threaten to take the iPad away if he goes past his time. This is silly!

The best way to manage this issue is to block the age restrictions in the apps. It immediately removes the app if you change the restrict to under 12 years old during downtime or block time. You can change it back when it is screen time.

What is working perfect for you?

THIS IS STILL A PROBLEM FOR US!

I want Roblox blocked at screen time, the right way.

Any specific suggestions anyone has to offer, without saying "THIS" worked for you? What's "THIS"?