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

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.

I completely agree and I am now considering to move to android for this reason. I know the parental control is much better on android phones. Unfortunately the posts above suggest that I am not alone with this issue and Apple has not done anything to change this since it was posted a year ago. Hopefully someone who works for Apple and has teens will realise the issue soon too!

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?

Same issue here. I have tried logging out, turning screen time off and then back on, restarting before and after updating settings and NOTHING will make downtime hold. My child can “one more minute” on certain apps and downtime/screentime limits will completely reset. It presents a safety issue because it also turns off all safety and content restrictions! It’s really awful. I currently have ZERO ability to control my child’s screen time without physically taking away his device, which can result in massive meltdowns and physical aggression here.

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Just seen the me too has reached over 1000 if apple does not listen to us then what kind of company are we supporting by buying there expensive products. Its very simple Apple have a option to disable any app without any minimum time i.e the one min option

This still allows a continual 1min extension to child where they “as for 1 more minute” and who approves it? No one and then they are still up till unreasonable hour on phone. I generally take phone off my kids at bed time as this is the only way I ensure they have that device free time. I think this feature is rediculous

Sweet I put in feedback. Hopefully something pans out in a year…or 10…depending on when other phone distributors roll it out on theirs + 3 to 5 years to “perfect” and then call it “Innovation.”

Apologies, I’m in a mood and feel like venting.

But where on the product feedback site? There is absolutely no place to give feedback for "settings" or "screentime". I went there to ask for one more minute to be ended but after using search function, i ended up here.

FightingToProtectOurKids wrote:

But where on the product feedback site? There is absolutely no place to give feedback for "settings" or "screentime".

As the feature you want to leave feedback about is part of the operating system, just use the general iPhone feedback section.

Please please please remove the “one more minute” option. How is this not on your radar to fix? Also, Apple, if you are fixing it, what is the estimated timeframe? This is causing so many arguments in our home.

As we all agree Apple has turn their eye over and over on this issue , even with thousands of parents requesting it. Imagine the not tech savvy parents that have no clue of their children’s behaviors online.

The only thing i can say that works and it has worked for us, is to have control over your router and modem. Check with your isp or wifi as you can restrict the internet from being used to the devices connected to it.

We schedule the Wiifi router to disconnect our child’s device from the internet until the next day during weekdays and late nights and she has NO control even the 1 min feature that Apple has failed to disable.

Hope it works!

I wish my kid had an iPad instead of an iPhone. I can block wifi per schedule but all she has to do is use the cellular connection. I really wanted to like the Apple parental controls coming from Android but they just don't work. I'll probably have to look to a paid option. I believe Verizon has some parental controls.

My child is using his ipad for 3 or more hours a day because of the stupid "One more minute" feature. He has allocated time for all apps. But then he repeatedly presses One more minute on other apps and individual web site addresses: Youtube.com, Youtube.ca, Youtube.co.uk, Youtube.fr, etc. You get the idea. It's driving me crazy. I want to disable "One more minute".

I also want to manually put in how much longer he can use the device for. It's not ever just 15 min, 1 hour or all day. I want to manually put in 5 min, 10 min or 30 min, or whatever I want.

There is no control right now for parents. There are SO many loopholes. But out of all the loopholes, this one is the most frustrating and seems to me to be the easiest to change.

My son repeatedly presses One more minute on other apps and individual web site addresses: Youtube.com, Youtube.ca, Youtube.co.uk, Youtube.fr, etc. He manages to watch 2-3 hours of Youtube a day using one minute at a time...