My iPhone goes into downtime by itself

The problem is not that Downtime exists. The problem is that the phone is initiating Downtime when it is clearly not downtime. For example, my child’s phone is supposed to go on Downtime at 10pm. But, it will stop working at random times during the day, telling him at 2pm for example that it is Downtime.

That just happened to me. I literally turned on my phone and it was in downtime. This is not the first time it happened and it’s preventing me from doing things that I need to do. It’s pretty annoying because I ask my parents and they say that they didn’t do anything and it’s just so infuriating and frustrating like there’s not even a 5 minute notice it just shuts off. Please fix this, Apple.

I am having the same issue. My son's downtime is set for 9pm to 7am and yet he keeps getting the notice mid-day that he can't call a friend due to downtime. This is really frustrating as the only thing that seems to stop the issue is turning off screen time entirely.

I am having a similar issue. The problem is I am the parent. I have double-checked that screen time wasn't accidentally turned on my device. It has only been happening since I updated to 17. It gives me a warning message on my lock screen but doesn't shut down.

I have this issue too, my device is supposed to go on Downtime at 10:00 Pm every day, but on Sunday at 15:55 pm I get the screen time notification saying 999 minutes remaining. And 5 minutes later it goes into downtime.

and I check on screen time it says downtime off until schedule but clearly it’s on.

can someone give me a possible fix for this **** issue that has been going on since 2022.

My child’s phone keeps doing the same daily between 2-4pm it turns on and randomly at other times too. Yet on my phone it says downtime is off. It’s so frustrating.

I think he means that downtime is INTENTIONALLY set up, however it will randomly tell you that you have x minutes of screentime left, and then 5 minutes later it will turn off (it is similar to the notification you get 5 minutes before downtime starts, however this will usually be random and not during downtime hours). The same thing happens to me. Is turning downtime on/off again the only fix? What do I do if it keeps happening?

Thanks

I use an iPhone 8 and this has happened multiple times.

Guess I’m hopping on the train, my downtime alert will go off (some nights) and will say I have 12M minutes before down time, prob like 1 min later and downtime goes off, this bug is really annoying

this happened to me what do i do..?

A similar thing has been happening to my younger sister. My dad has always had screen time set up for us but since I’m older than 18 now it doesn’t affect me anymore. She gets a notification saying 104 minutes left until downtime, and then it randomly will go into downtime even though our dad doesn’t have a downtime set. It’s very frustrating and our dad isn’t interested in turning off the parental controls for her screen time. It also shows when she goes into setting and to screen time that downtime is “off” but all her apps are disabled. Please fix this apple!! She has an iPhone 12 and it’s version 16.1.1

Same here. My phone will give me a random notification at a random time of day saying something like "235 minutes until downtime", and within a matter of minutes my phone turns downtime on? Does anyone have a solution? The only way I found is by asking my dad to turn screentime off and then on.

yes this just happend to me, and my mom turned downtime on, then off and that worked so thats all that worked for me

Downtime is a feature meant to restrict usage of your phone after hours, to disable this feature, go to Settings - Screen Time - Downtime, and ask your parents to enter the Screen Time password (if applicable) and disable the switch. This feature was most likely accidentally enabled when setting up your iPhone.

been happening to me, every Wednesday it will only let me use normal apps from 6 am to 6:58 pm my phone is updated to the newest IOS and its very frustrating

Same problem here. And until now I have no idea whatsoever if there is sort of a pattern behind the malfunction. Downtime is set from 11 pm to 7 am. First time this problem occurred for us seems to be 15 September 2023. But as this feed started much earlier (27 April 2023) it doesn't seem to be connected to a recent update, does it?

Any ideas about a solution?