Screen time not working!!!

While you may be experiencing problems with Screen Time, Apple is not intentionally creating problems for you to prevent you from using it. There are many parents using it quite successfully to control their children's devices.

Start here, Use Screen Time on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support and then with this document as well. Use parental controls on your child's iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support

Definitely 16.2 bugs. I am having the same types of issues. Downtime and app limits are disappearing or reappearing after I make changes. Almost seems like sync conflicts between devices. I am happy to upload logs if someone from apple wants them. Just reach out.

I'm sorry you feel that way, and if you believe this is being done on purpose, you will never figure out what is causing your problem. Use the Support link at the top of the page here to contact Apple Support if you wish to get it working.

If nothing provided here does not help you need to contact Apple Support. Use the Support link at the top of the page here. You also have the ability to provide feedback to Apple to let them know about your issue. They do not participate here, this is users only. Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Similar issue, screen time won’t stay on. It will turn off and just get unlimited screen time.

kids don’t know the password, it’s an apple bug that they don’t address.

This issue is ask over the forums but they chose it and don’t fix it.

Screentime for my daughter’s iPhone stopped working correctly the day we all upgraded our devices to 16.2. I contacted Apple and had an audio support call with them. They had no solution - other than advising me to backup our iPhones, restore them, and re-activate screentime. Well, we did that and we’re still having issues. My daughter admitted to me that she saw a video online Ti_T_k that showed her how to “glitch” her iPhone to turn off screentime. Not sure that’s what is happening, but I’ve tried logging everytime screentime had to be re-activated or has failed. I can’t find a pattern. The only for sure thing that I know is it started giving me problems when we upgraded our iPhones to the latest software release.

Same boat and thread after thread here asking this same question and no one fixes it.

Screen time keeps turning off for my chil… - Apple Community

my kids screen time and app limits get turned off daily. Change password and they don’t know it.

Something is broken…..

Anyone ever having screen time or downtime issues?

Yes! Our daughter sends a request and I’m unable to do anything. I just get this spinning wheel 🤦🏻‍♀️

Have done this today and many times before. Still broken!!!

Hi

I am facing same issue after updating to 16.2. Screen-time was buggy from beginning.

I wasted lot of days, restoring 50 to 100 device, resetting devices, calling apple support.

Ultimately, i came to conclusion that it is not our devices that is causing these issues. It could be apple server, icloud, home kit etc causing these issues. Apple support is total waste of time, as tech support many times don’t even know, how Apple product work. They are just waste time to start a ticket, tickets are never followed and no one is working on it. Starting a ticket means, good bye. I have 3 or 4 tickets with some started a year ago on issues like wallet notifications coming late, apple participant card cannot be activated, legacy contact stuck in appleid.apple.com apple account which cannot be removed. After 16.2, update, the screentime issue, homekit issue, cameras not recording to icloud and the list goes on.

I do think at this point that, even apple engineers dont know how to fix these issues. It is just a technical Chaos.

I recommend people not wasting time on this and probably move on to android or other devices. If kids do not leave screen, just brick the device and give them old flip flop phone for calls and messages. Sometimes old is gold.

Apple has become a rip off and there competitors could be worse. It clearly remind that Steve Jobs and his legacy is dead.