Screen Time not working on Tiktok, Snapchat, Instagram?

same here. the settings keep resetting. last night my daughter was facetiming a friend during downtime hours and it’s because her allowed downtime contacts keep going back to Everyone, no matter how often i change it. it’s weird because you never really know if it’s saved or not. so frustrating

I have the same issue, even if I set application time limits for Instagram and other social media apps for the kids, they can ignore the limit at the end and keep using all day long. I bought Apple phones for the kids because of the screentime promise but never worked properly and always caused glitches.

Why would you even reply Jack, when you are clearly clueless as to the rampant number of problems Screen Time has with this and related issues.

The only thing worse than your pointless reply is the fact that Apple has recommended your reply.

My daughter regularly watches TikTok past her scheduled downtime of 20:30, but there’s no problem with Screen Time is there 🙄 No amount of resetting, updating, fiddling fixes it….. But no known issues, cheers 👍🏽

To joakim18: I appreciate your input, but it seems the solution in the Youtube link is to login to the actual device, open TikTok and then use TikToks screen time management. That is imho sort of giving up on Apples screen time management system and over-complicates what should be user/parent friendly.

I am having this issue with my child’s phone as well. I have checked all the parental controls, have limits set up and selected the block after time limit option. All of that is showing correctly. However, on my daughter’s phone while in TikTok and Snapchat, instead of seeing “Ask for more time” at the bottom when she hits her limit, it reads “ignore for full day” or something like that. The limits worked in the beginning; however now they are not. I’m guessing her phone ran an update and this is a glitch. This is a major problem that needs to be fixed!

We have the same issue as these posts running as far back as 2019. In my eyes this seems 100% intentional, as is the horrible interface and logic of Apple's parental controls software (compared with Google's family time which I used for years). This company knows how to make things simple and easy. That's its credo. But it can't manage to make a straightforward, usable and consistent app for limiting use and addiction to iphones? with gazillion complaints and questions online for years? I find it hard to believe this is just a shoddy, unreliable product vs an intentional, cold and brutal, corporate decision.

So, after trying several workarounds and still my 13 y.o daughter is logging 6 straight hours of tik tok (limited to 1 hr in Family Time), with a clear decline in her joy and general wellbeing, we've found our work around: android.

Yes we are having the same issue and it is very frustrating! Snapchat and Instagram are the two apps that my daughters like to be on most and we can't control it! And of course they are super addicting.

I am very upset that we can't do anything about it. I have thought about switching over to Google because of this issure.

Oh my I get you! My daughters are logging about 4-6 hours easy on their phones and we can't control the apps. I agree I think it is intentional and it is so bad for our kids!

How was the switch over? I am thinking that is the way to go.

It has been more than a year that the screen time does not work with Tik tok. I called many times Apple customer service and they tried to resolve it with no success. It is still not working and it’s very frustrating when you buy an iPhone with this service but it does not work. Are you still experiencing the same??

I tried this fix for me, but it didn't work. Tik Tok STILL is the ONLY app on my 12 year old son's phone that doesn't respond to screen time limits (I've also tried creating a screen time limit JUST for Tik Tok etc).

it's the same issue with Douyin the Chinese version of Ticktock. Wasting hours my life... It's not a bug, it's a feature?

Bought Ipads for my children because I thought Apple will be at least care for child safety. Big mistake.

I tried this and it didn’t work. I do think that in my daughter’s case, it may some stupid widget app that she downloaded without permission when I let her download another app. I think the apps that she can use as long as she wants no matter what I tried were widgets on her phone. Now I have to wrest it from her grasp tomorrow and look for the widget app to delete it

Same here, I have the exact same issue but with Snapchat.

Screen Time is one big mess since a while now. It shows settings but behaves completely differently.

I’m suspecting it might have to do with different iOS versions.

Considering kids are typically on older phones vs their parents.

I have an iPhone 15 (iOS 17) myself and my kid an iPhone X (iOS 16)

When you say “go to Screen Time on your child’s device” - do you mean literally use their device to make this change, or can I do this on my phone accessing the Screen Time settings on her device?

Yes!!!! It worked!!!! Thank you so much Imgzz!!!! Problem solved. 👍😊