How to fix massive and constant breaking in screen time?
Hello, for several months I have been having the biggest glitches with screen time I have ever seen in the years it has been used on me. Every few days it is broken. I would like to list what seems to cause it and the results of it happening to see if this bug is known to Apple. I am tired of having to manually ask for my settings to be re-enabled every few days for about 3 months, and I doubt many other young ones are very eager to speak up about this happening so this may be going undetected.
Note: Also happens on iPad Mini 4, and all because it breaks on one device doesn’t always mean it breaks on the other.
The following things have a chance (never guaranteed) of triggering this glitch;
- A screen time request being approved, usually during downtime
- Any website on Safari crashing
- Device being shutdown and turned on
- Phone not connected to Wi-Fi for a few days
- Sometimes triggers for no reason at all
When the glitch occurs, one or more of the following things happen;
- App limits are deleted.
- Downtime shows as on but everything is allowed/downtime is turned off
- Always allowed apps are reset to the basic apps removing all other added apps
- Content restrictions either turn off, or show that they are enabled but do not block anything.
- The last app open will count screen time constantly for a day regardless of device shutdowns or app being closed.
Usually not all of these glitches happen at once, instead the glitch causes a couple of these to happen.
The bug sometimes corrects itself after several days, but if the app limits are deleted I need to ask for each one to be re-added.
I would like to know if anyone else has this issue, and although I have found no way to fix it yet, I hope Apple can patch this.
iPhone 12 Pro
