iPhone Screen time keeps auto resetting

I have the same problem. It seems to reset multiple times a week regardless. My daughter says she doesn't even know the password, but somehow we go from 1-2 hours per day limit to NO LIMIT several times per week.

The limits resetting daily means, for example, if you give them 30 mins daily for YouTube, and they used it up, the next day, the time resets and they will get 30 mins to use again.

BUT, there is still a problem where the limits aren’t sticking and the apps aren’t blocked once the kids reach the limit. The settings itself keep resetting, this is a problem Apple has yet to fix.

i have the same problem with one of my son’s iPhone. Screen time resets every day and it really drives me crazy. He has IPhone SE 3rd generation. My older son has Iphone 11 and I don’t have any issues with his. Apple really needs to fix this!

This just means that the accumulated time counter is reset at midnight. Each app can have it's own DAILY time limit and of course it resets daily ;-)

Some have complained that the actual ON/OFF switch for app limits and downtime are being reset to "off" at midnight -- and thit_is a real bug. But that's not the same issue you are reporting here.

FIX THIS APPLE! You know you can, and yet you refuse to change this. Look at the hundreds of comments here. Why do Time Limits reset every night at midnight? This is a load of 💩 for our kids, and the parents who assume what they entered is doing its job. Really awful of Apple.

Same for me too. Every couple days all the restrictions I have placed will just be gone. I can still see the activity but the limits are all gone. Both the time limits and content restrictions. This is bad. Apple, FIX THIS!!!!

Hello Apple,

I've been experiencing an ongoing issue for the past three years, and despite trying numerous troubleshooting methods, including the basic "switch computer on and off" approach, the problem persists. As a developer in a large company, it's frustrating to see this issue unresolved. I'm perplexed as to why it hasn't been addressed yet.

It's disheartening to think that the only explanation could be a focus on keeping users engaged with social media platforms. I hope this matter can be addressed promptly. Thank you.

I WOULD JUST KINDLY POINT OUT THAT SCEEN TIME CAN NOT BE TRUSTED. THEREFORE THE APPLE BE TRUSTED. I WILL NEVERE EVER AGINA BUY A PRODUCT FROMT THIS SCAM COMPANY EVERER. ITS LIKE A DRUG PUSHER TO KIDS, PROMISING PARANTS A WAY TO DEAL WITH THE CHALLENGES THEY CAUSE. BUT THEN ONLY TO SABOTAGE EVERYTHING RANDOMLY.

STEVE JOBS WOULD TURN IN HIS GRAVE IF HE KNOW HOW YOU MISMANAGED THIS ISSUE!

This has been an issue for more than a year now. I have already tried spending hours with apple support. And so far the only solution they could come up was to restore all devices to factory settings. Really? Factory reset is the solution to all issues?And what happens with the user data? I have been apple user since I don’t even know when. And they want me to reset my device and loose all my data to fix screen time issue which used to work perfectly before.

and on top even when screen time is in place, it doesn’t block apps such as TikTok, Snapchat even after allocated time. And then safari stops working even when it is allowed and within usage limit.

can we please have a permanent working solution to keep our kids safe.

Same, I am constantly having to reset the settings, I too changed the passcode suspecting the kids had figured it out but that was not the case.

Apple needs to fix this issue big time. Between content safety settings and time restrictions, this is getting ridiculous when touted as an Apple family safety feature. It hardly ever works

Agreed. This fix is not rocket science. I am concerned Apple simply has no intent of fixing this issue. How much money are they throwing at new space age features, and they cannot make this simplest of features function correctly?

After nearly two years of watching my kid's phone blow through all the present screen time limits (downtime, app limits, all of them!) and then seeing the dreaded "X failed passcode attempts" box every few days and having to reset it, only to repeat every few days, I have finally figured two possibilities that have corrected this bug once I changed them:

1) I had also had my wife set as a parent/guardian on the 'family' setting, so that she would get the screen time requests. I changed this to 'Adult' instead of 'parent/guardian' for her. Now I am the only 'parent/guardian' in the 'family'.

2) I logged out of my icloud account on my mac since I noticed often times my kids screen time fail would occur after using my mac. I am now only logged in to my icloud on my iphone. This offsets many of the features of the mac, including imessage, but I'm willing to let those go if I don't have to deal with the frustration of not having screen time work as its supposed to.

I'm not sure which of these (or maybe the combination) was causing this screen time issue, but after making these two changes, it has now been over a week without the screen time failing once, the longest in a couple years for me.

After nearly two years of watching my kid's phone blow through all the present screen time limits (downtime, app limits, all of them!) and then seeing the dreaded "X failed passcode attempts" box every few days and having to reset it, only to repeat every few days, I have finally figured two possibilities that have corrected this bug once I changed them:

1) I had also had my wife set as a parent/guardian on the 'family' setting, so that she would get the screen time requests. I changed this to 'Adult' instead of 'parent/guardian' for her. Now I am the only 'parent/guardian' in the 'family'.

2) I logged out of my icloud account on my mac since I noticed often times my kids screen time fail would occur after using my mac. I am now only logged in to my icloud on my iphone. This offsets many of the features of the mac, including imessage, but I'm willing to let those go if I don't have to deal with the frustration of not having screen time work as its supposed to.

I'm not sure which of these (or maybe the combination) was causing this screen time issue, but after making these two changes, it has now been over a week without the screen time failing once, the longest in a couple years for me.

Did someone from Apple tracking this forum?

Dear APPLE,

Screen time DOES NOT WORK, ALL SETTINGS RESETS ABRUPTLY , AND THIS IS HAPPENING FOR THE LAST 3 years.

I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN WORKING ON LATELY, BUT THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE AT ANY LEVEL.

I AM IN TECH INDUSTRY - IF I WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS PRODUCT , I WOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED A LONG TIME AGO.

I am a 30+ year apple customer, this is the worst experience I had ever.

Updating to the latest iOS 18 or macOS Sequoia does not fix this. I reached out to Apple Support on this, and they asked me to rename both parent (2) and child (2) device names and leave them renamed for 24 hrs, then rename them back. I told them that they are talking about over a dozen devices - it's time consuming, and it would break router rules and device pairs. So I asked them to escalate it for real fix than a hack, they told me that they cannot proceed without me trying this. This is like being a test engineer at Apple! Thanks Apple!