Screen Time App Limits keep disappearing

So this known issue has been going on for almost two months. It would be nice if we could at least get a, "we're working on it" reply here. The reason I came to apple was for the convenience of how the family sharing/control was set up. I'm about to get another phone because mine simply isn't doing what it's designed and advertised to do. Very disappointing

Happens to us as well. I’ve update my Iphone14 plus and sons iPhone 12 to most recent. Still happens. I set app limits then they disappear randomly. This needs to be fixed, lots of parents depend on that. literally an entire feature is not working - what’s the hold up.

I agree !!! The total disregard has me ******. How many parents don’t even know it’s broken! Extremely disappointing. Apple is supposed to be superior…. Not so when you have entire features that don’t work!

This glitch has been annoying me for so long! Initially I thought it had to do with kids devices going into power saver mode and thus stopping background updates, but it's not linked to that. Completely unpredictable and I haven't been able to find what actually triggers the limit to disappear. Extremely frustrating and basically renders the feature completely useless...

I am having the same issue just upgraded my child from an iPhone 7 to an iPhone 14 with iOS 16.3. I am very disappointed to read this has been going on for months with no fix. Screen time is the whole reason why we stayed with Apple vs Android. Any idea if it will be fixed in the next release or another app we can use as a work around until it is fixed?

@apple. Guys, this is clearly not working as it should...

Opened a incident with apple, done everything as suggested. Sync Childs device, log out of icloud on all devices, reset all devices and start again...still not working

With 16.3 on all devices, the problem remains. Please fix this, it´s just unusable

It is happening to me as well. All my kids devices and mine are iOS 16.3. Certainly apple has lost its mind and good developers. Unbelievable that they don’t care about millions of kids who are getting lost with unlimited screen time for many months.

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Aaaand here we are midway through February with still no fix. Okay Apple, I see you. I also see new phones in my pre-teens’ futures that are NOT Apple products. I chose Apple for the ease of locking down their phones. You’ve given them free access for several months now. Deuces.

Truly unbelievable that there’s no fix to this yet! Beside this deactivation „feature“ - are you all experiencing a problem with the screen time notifications since iOS 16 as well? My kids‘ requests are nearly all pushed via iMessage and not as a screen time notification anymore, hence you cannot grant more time via the Apple Watch and the iMessage chats with your kids are spammed 😤

Same for me and it’s gotten worse over time. I’m running 16.3.1 and it continues to happen.

I contacted support and went through a host of steps, logging out, powering off, logging out of all kids devices, logging them back in. Resetting limits.

I was assigned a case number.

They wanted to connect me to their engineering team but it was super late at that point and I had to call it a night.

What I discovered is that my daughter's app limits disappear when she asks for 1 more minute when her time is up on an app with a limit.

She is part of Family Sharing and I control her screen time. We are on the latest IOS version. I been following this thread for an answer then found another article about asking for 1 more minute and how that resets the app limits. I asked her to test it and this seems to be the case.

Extending downtime and having to approve every time she goes on an app is not a solution. Has anyone heard back from Apple support?

Same problem for 3 months now. Several upgrades including 16.3.1 but no change. I spoke with a tech guy from Apple, he claims that there are no similar issues reported

Please call Apple and report this problem. If it is not reported by all of us, it will be wishful thinking.

One of the use cases should be that screen time limits disappear for one child after updating the limits for another child. I have found a workaround randomly a time or two but sometimes hours will go by before the previously set limits reappear on their own. Thank you for sharing the update!

App limits option completely disappeared for one child but it is still there for the other. Even resetting it doesn't work. I realize there is an open issue but are there any workarounds??

Using Downtime doesnt seem to do anything either.

This is STILL AN ISSUE. I am constantly having to reimplement app limits for my son's phone.

This has been happening for months now, and NOTHING from APPLE. Can we get some kind of response? This is getting ridiculous. The feature does not work!!