Screen Time App Limits keep disappearing

We installed 16.5.1 on all our devices yesterday. We’ve now lost app limits 3 times in the past 24 hours. Somehow it got worse? Apple seems to be devoting too many resources into their $3,500 VR platform while leaving existing customers/concerned parents on our own. I cannot believe this hasn’t been fixed.

Nobody wants to hear it but at this point none of these minor updates are going to fix it. I’ll wait until September’s iOS 17… if it’s not fixed/overhauled by then we’ll be moving to a stable platform.

I’ve noticed something similar, but even this is no longer working for me. The screen time implementation seems to be one of the most flawed Apple software releases. My theory is that they don’t really care about it because most parents will never set it up. Frankly, I think it should be auto enabled out of the box for any user under 18 years old. Of course it could be disabled, but at very least it would help people realize that controls are available.

Apple! Please fix this!!!

it’s ridiculous such an important functionality was implemented by Apple in such a haphazard way. Even terrible is the fact that u have not been able to fix it yet! Shame on you

I have the exact same problem... constantly having to re-add all of the App Limits, just to see them gone the next day. Very frustrating! I did contact Apple and report it and have a case number (102048232152), so hopefully it's one more vote for getting it fixed.

Latest thing. App limits randomly disappears, BUT, it then also randomly reappears.

So I might throw a limit on there one afternoon or evening for the teens, then when I go to remove its not there.

Then randomly the next day or so, I will get a message from them asking for screentime, because the app limit has reappeared and kicked in again.

So freaking dodgy. Am over it.

This! So I only started to use it after this thread was created. It worked great for month or so. Then it did the same thing! After an update recently. I somehow even ended up with my phone on full screen time instead every day! No way to turn it off as who is “supervising me” it was annoying. It has disappeared but not my kids app limits. Until today they somehow are still there vs disappeared 5 times lol maybe my teenager stopped asking for one more minute and that’s why. I went to go set it again and was surprised to see the settings still there lol they should def fix this. I’m on the verge of dipping apple and getting a $25 flip phone for call and text only lol

Same issue!! It’s very irritating. The app limit is useless because it just disappears when you need it. It used to work perfectly for me but since this glitch it’s pointless to even try to set a limit. They disappear every day…Please, Apple, fix this…🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

It seem, according to the fact of having this issue more than a year... our dear apple friends don't care about customers. This f....g feature is essentially important for kids screen time control, but it never worked and doesn't work as it must. Already tired to set it up again and again many times a day...

Also, many questions to the vendor including very poor software quality, whom you hired to develop and test it? As usual somebody as chip as possible? so paying less you get same sh...t quality.

Quite ready to through out mine and kids phones and never by apple again

Apple, what's the whole point of having the screen time and app limits for our kids if they can overwrite it??? Fix this important issue or I'll have the EU press charges against you. It won't be the first time nor the last... Kids safety should be number one priority!!!

It worked ok for me for years, but since I updated to iOS 17, the limits I set on Screen Time for my children get reset every day.

Apple is ignoring its large base of users and affecting what's more important to us: KIDS

So there was another major IO's update, plus few more minor ones. This thread is here for almost a year and apple just doesn't care AT ALL. All I can see they're doing is deleting comments here... Hey apple, deletion of complaints from your clients is not solving any issues! on a contrary it is forcing me to think about android more and more with each day! it actually really seems that android is the only possible solution for this issue. So if you care about your kids - get an android! That's what apple shows to us.

We have 4 children and it’s still resetting the app limits within a few days - not sure the exact amount of time, or what triggers it. But that is a lot of time spent resetting the limits every time and it’s not worth it. Yes, Apple is forcing parents away from Apple to find other options.

I have to add my backing to this as well: APPLE! Please get this sorted!!

App limits disappear after a day or so. And of course, our kids don’t come and tell us!

And Apple have locked their iOS down so much that we can’t even rely on a good 3rd party option.

Come on!!!

Been a while since Apple responded to this issue. What gives? This has been an issue for me for over a year. Parental controls were the ONLY reason I moved my family to Apple devices. Now that Google has Family Link, I don't see a reason to stay.

Don’t believe Apple’s lies. There are multiple bugs so that the parental controls have never worked, and Apple has no interest in fixing them. If you try to get help, they will give you a run around of endless settings to check, reboots, updating iOS. I have tried all of it, and it never works for more than five minutes. For a company that prides itself on user friendliness, you have to wonder if this isn’t intentional just to get kids more addicted to their phones. I don’t think that Apple is lacking the talent to make parental controls work. In my experience, both Microsoft and Google parental controls is that they work much better. When it’s time to upgrade my kids’ phones, they will be androids, not iPhones.