Screen Time Data
In my daughters screen time usage there are dark bars for today from midnight to her first pickup at 7:30am. Her screen time counted that entire time — but no pickups and no categories. What does that mean?
iPhone XS
Understanding Screen Time Graph (Grey Bar explained)
All apps have been assigned to certain categories in iTunes. Screen Time has chosen the top 11 categories and has put all remaining categories in a category called "Others".
There are 12 Categories in Screen Time
- Social Networking: FaceBook, Hangout, Instagram
- Games: Scrabble, PUBG
- Entertainment: Netflix, Amazon Music
- Creativity: Photos, Google Photos
- Productivity: HDFC Bank
- Education: SkyView, Learn Python
- Reading & Reference: Kindle, NDTV
- Health & Fitness: BeatO, Health, Activity
- Utilities: Voice Memos, Measure
- Shopping & Food: Apple Store
- Travel: Maps
- Others: Big Basket, iTunes Store
The graph displays the top 3 (Time used by the user) category legends on the X-axis. Anything other than these legend categories is a Grey bar in the graph
For example:
If the user has used Social Networking, Reading, and Reference and Others category apps for the maximum time during a time span. The graph will show these three categories in the X axis as legends and the remaining categories (Remaining apps that have used less than 6 min account for what is being shown in Grey Colour.
See the pic below explained