Apple Screen Time app limits not working

My daughter's iPad had a limit of 6hrs a day for all aps but her screentime stats say she's been on for 20 today . how is that possible? hours

Good job

Check your child’s calendar. My daughter changed her phones calendar date a day behind which in turned canceled out her screen time limit for the day. She had unlimited time on all her apps.

Ok so that's exactly what's happening here. It's a convenient software glitch that will solidify the next generation of customers by having them addicted as **** to iOS at a young age. Great.

Like thousands of others! Apple is doing us no favor. Addicting our kids when responsible parents are trying to monitor screen time. They’re horribly irresponsible, and should be brought publicly!

Another IPhone user chiming in, I (the parent) have an IPhone 13 Pro max, on iOS 16.5. I have two children using IPhones one using IPhone 8 Plus which uses the latest iOS and works perfectly fine with screen time, never had any issues with this one. However my daughters mobile which is an IPhone 6s which just recently had an update to 15.7.6 which I hoped would fix the screen time reset issue but it did not. The IPhone 6s resets the screen time setting that were set up at random intervals, and have been onto Apple support since April about this issue. I will update when I have any further information, as I am disappointed that Apple has such bugs in their system especially when it comes to protecting our children with parental controls.

Same! It's been about a month. Used to work great. I loved the feature and it's why I got my son and iPhone and not something else. I thought I was going crazy. I kept resetting the restrictions, and I still seem them but he is honest and says nothing is popping up telling him his time is up and he can just continue on. Grrrrr. I also can no longer see the daily usage.

With the screentime restriction in place, this is not preventing kids from the in-app purchases and kids quietly subscribing to many unintended purchases. They must fix this. Appstore app not disappearing. It suddenly stopped working :(

I bought my kids theirs for Xmas and to start with downtime worked but after a week they just seemed to have time all the time. Googled it and so updated all software still doesn’t work. Sat here this morning and he is sat playing on it despite it telling me on family downtime is on as I have up on the schedule and just tried to turn it off permanently and then give an hour as and when but can’t get them off it. I’m not happy. Have they said they are doing anything about it ??

Have been noticing this issue for many months and thought it was an isolated problem with our phones. Apparently it is wide spread, clearly an iOS problem that has been going on for years now and APPLE is obviously not ONE BIT concerned with child safety, since many system updates have already come through over these years without a solution to this problem. What a SHAME! And I had bought an iPhone for my daughter specifically because I believed the parental controls were better with the iOS Family settings than with other Android solutions.

Anybody could refer me to a third party downtime / app restriction app that would ACTUALLY work, since clearly Apple is not interested in solving this problem?

I have the same issue, I set screen time limits for my kid, it works for a few minutes and then it stops working. My kid is developing attention deficit disorder and his grades have lowered because of this! This issue is serious Apple and needs to be fixed !

I wish. I’m on my 5th Senior Apple Advisor since October. Told not a known issue and asked to erase all devices and set up new. So all data will be gone.

does anyone from Apple monitor this? Is there a fix coming??

not really what you expect from Apple…

I’ve been having the same issue , it’s just not logging changes that you make. Problem started about same time

as you. Must be something an update caused .

was there a solution to this? Have you found a fix?

Have you tested this and waited for a few days to see if the problem returns?

I'm very hesitant to do this, because ...... well, do I really need to explain this? Erasing all settings means ALL SETTINGS will be set to default as far as I know. So that means you'll lose screen settings, sounds settings, focus settings, privacy settings, etc... So many things on my phone are not default anymore. I really don't want to go through all settings again to fix one problem.

This is just another way of Apple ignoring the bug. They simply say "start from scratch".