Screentime/parental control not working

I have the same issue - it's been a problem for *years* - at the beginning I understood this was a new product and might be glitchy, but after so long, this is not worthy of apple's reputation for quality products.

• screentime randomly stops working
• takes forever to update
• when you try to add app limits, it glitches and freezes there infinitly
• if you miracly succeed in adding app limit, the child can just postpone forever asking for additional five minutes

We live in an era where everyone is trying to capture our teen's attention in permanence, and uses incredibly sneaky ways to keep them addicted to their apps. No, we are not always physically with them checking, teens are starting to gain in independence, they go to school, to their friend's, ect... we need ways to manage their technology effectively - this is a matter of protecting our children. Apple should do better.

I never follow apple support when they start troubleshooting my saying reset, delete device etc. That is a non-technical and incompetent approach. Apple buy time by putting those incompetent resources and in the back end work on bugs. It's a known bug now that on IOS 16 Parental Control won't work. Only difference is Apple is not accepting it.

Same problem. No solution with apple support. Spent 3 hours on the phone a they did not help me. I did everything (reset device , delete device, sign out). It just do not work. Shame on Apple! I do not know what to do.

Hi Devon,

I have the exact same issue with my kids screentime. I called Apple Support and now I am waiting for second level support to come back with a solution. Apple asked me if I was using a vpn on my iphone, apparently that can cause these glitch issues. I also have parental controls setup on my Asus router to limit Wi-Fi access for certain devices. Could that interfere with Apple screen time?

best regards,

Mike