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

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.

My daughter can spend hours looking at different webpages for "1 more minute" and playing each of her games for one minute. Please please Apple, disable the one more minute option! Otherwise we too will be forced to move to an android device.

To make it even harder, Apple has stopped the BARK kids app from being able to access the device without entering a password every few minutes. I'm getting desperate!

Thanks

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.

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.

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.

The app limits function is consistently temperamental and frequently does not work. I have tried so many things to fix this including following the many instructions posted to various threads, watched numerous YouTube videos, followed the instructions on the Apple website, installed the latest iOS software on my phone and that of my child’s. It is so irritating.

I need to add my voice here. My kid got many games from purchase history of family sharing, and for all games she takes advantage of that "one extra minute", adding her 30 extra minutes in total. Need an option to disable this feature. Sometimes, I feel like apple dont want to give such compatible features.

My settings have been like this for a long time and my child keeps doing the One More Minute thing, and all apps limits are set to "Block at the end." I mean, the apps do block at the end but he keeps doing one more minute for other things, I don't know what else to do. Meanwhile, my other 2 kids have Chromebooks, so easy to manage... not even fair how much Android kicked Apple's behind on the simplicity for parents to manage screen time for their children.

My teen can just click the “ignore limit for today” on their ipad, then they just plays games for the rest of the night! Whats the point of downtime if your kid can IGNORE it for the entire NIGHT? I tried switching their screentime to a 12 year old setting, so it but it showed the same options (A.K.A, loopholes)! Please, please help!

andrzej276 wrote:

Reply from Apple is a joke! They completely ignore serious concerns of their customers. I am moving to Android!

No one from Apple has replied in this thread. And, I doubt anyone here cares if you move to Android. If Android phones suit you better, I say go for it.

Apples screen time is an absolute mess and not fit for purpose! My kid just repeatedly uses one more minute also which just makes time limits and downtimes pointless! That’s not to mention all the other bugs that are rife in the screen time system.

You are correct, but when a child has multiple apps, he or she can go to multiple apps and select one minute more for each and every app they have.

I found out last night my child did this. She was still up past her bedtime one minute at a time

Yes! Amen, all my kids phones live downstairs day or night for accountability on many levels. It did mean we had to buy them traditional alarm clocks, but so much better for them! If they sneak them, they lose them altogether unless there is a specific time I want/need them to have them. If during that time they still do something they shouldn’t, the length of the consequence resets. Trying to help them develop good habits and self control, but app limits can even be helpful for some of us adults at time with these addicting screens!

measterling wrote:

Yes! Amen, all my kids phones live downstairs day or night for accountability on many levels. It did mean we had to buy them traditional alarm clocks, but so much better for them! If they sneak them, they lose them altogether unless there is a specific time I want/need them to have them. If during that time they still do something they shouldn’t, the length of the consequence resets. Trying to help them develop good habits and self control, but app limits can even be helpful for some of us adults at time with these addicting screens!

You sound like a great parent!

I agree that the app limits don't always seem to work the way they should, but one has to work with what one has.