How to Disable "one more minute" screen time limit on iPhone?

michaluna wrote:

"Take the phone away" is not an option for teens.

Why not?

That doesn't really help if its a tablet. Why would I go out and buy a new phone for a 6 year old.

I agree and I too am thinking of moving to android due to Apples complete unwillingness to deal with this. I will say that if you go to settings and disallow deleting apps then they can’t remove and reinstall anyway.

Lots of bugs in screen time. My children have found out they can continue to watch saved videos in camera roll by adding them to a messege thread to either parent and watching but not sending. Can also go into settings storage review large attachments and watch camera roll items there. Also can go into camera and click the small thumbnail on bottom and view entire camera roll. Kids are smart but these back doors keep them awake at night playing on phones. Only solution is to have it be charged in common area and not bedrooms

Ivyhelpme wrote:

My 9 yo did this for 45 minutes til i got up from bed to check on him. Very inconvenient. I think screentime should not be an option offered if it isnt going to work as expected.

Charge the phone overnight in your bedroom.

Switch to a Samsung phone and use Googles Family Link or get a Gabb Phone. Both cover all the basics of parental control. Family Link is the defacto Android parental control native to Android and allows for remote control of permissions and monitoring. Gabb phone is just a dumb phone (but looks like a smart phone so your kid can "fit in"), and so it has zero config, and so you kids can't complain and ask for more time etc, because that is just not an option :)

My son wanted an iPhone, I tried setting up parental controls on my iPhone before buying one for him. I was unable to stop myself from getting access to apps and websites via the Screen Time feature (Screen Time is more for personal governance than parental control). I ended up on this forum because I was hoping I was missing something. Poor boy going to have a Samsung: he can deal with the stupid peer pressure of his friend's and Apple's hokey dokey iMessage lock in. I was hoping I could just give my boy iMessage and Spotify, but not an option with current iOS 16.

You can't get rid of "1 more minute option"... so the only way to do parental controls on iOS is to uninstall all apps that you for sure don't want your kids to ever open, and for un installable Apple apps you want "blocked" you just have to live with the one more minute option.

I caught my step daughter asking me for more time for Snapchat. I refused and after 5 minute, I caught her restarting her phone and then getting a one minute on snap chat. There are glitches, that iPhone have to work on

Why does Apple not want to allow us to turn the “one more minute” request off?? It has to be for their benefit and to allow kids to still use the apps so app developers don’t get upset with them. I’m not sure, but they have got to allow us parents to restrict apps completely! Thinking of moving to an android solely because of this flaw! If I had known it was like this I never would have purchased iPhones. Apple you have dropped the ball on this issue!

This answer completely misses the point. THERE NEEDS TO BE A LIMIT OR OPTION TO DISABLE ONE MORE MINUTE WHEN ON DOWNTIME. Not having such makes half of the options in screen time totally worthless. Children WILL AND DO press that button for as long as they can get away with. You do parents absolutely no favors by allowing this to continue endlessly. FIX THIS DESIGN FLAW.

Yes, Google Family Link application is available on AppStore. You can manage screentime and downtime for your child’s android device from that app.

You also have to install the Family Link app on the android device.

We found a solution to this. I bought my daughters iPad off her and she no longer has an iPad. She is a changed girl and no longer addicted to her iPad. She also enjoyed having some money to spend. Give it a go, kids don’t need an iPad.

This is really annoying. I’m tasked with setting up an iPad for a cognitively disabled adult that is getting themselves into serious trouble online.

We would really like to block social media altogether in apps and browser - screen time gives a convenient filter for this, but no option to block altogether.

I can think of other ways to get this done, but my restrictions might need to be more strict than I’d really like

Has anyone else had a recent issue where when you child hits one more minute, as long as they don’t reboot their phone, it turns the limits off? It happens to my daughter at least

once a week. And best part after it does, when I go into the screen time settings, the content restrictions, app limits and downtime are all turned off/wiped. I was even able to replicate it. Apple support’s only suggestion was to reboot the phone. Like she’s going to say “ hey mom, my phone is letting me watch YouTube for 6 hours, can you fix it?” Insane.

I second getting rid of "one more minute" entirely or at least provide an option to disable it.

Kids will use the screen record function + "one more minute" and fast scroll pages of Instagram or Twitter for viewing at their own pace afterwards, wasting MUCH more time than just "one more minute". Ridiculous.

This! We’ve had that issue for the past couple of months. Tapping “one more minute” on several apps disabled the time limit and all other restrictions. At the beginning it seemed like updating both devices helped but today it’s back again. It’s terribly annoying and I wish it was fixed. Otherwise what’s the point of parental controls?