Screen Time Buggy and SLOW!

Settings for child devices constantly reset to blank. Usage activity is extremely slow to load. Approving additional time for apps works about 70% of the time. Screen time requests don’t show up on my Wife’s phone who is also set up as a parent. The list goes on. It’s great when it works, but generally speaking it is one of the buggiest features I’ve ever encountered from Apple.


We are all on very current hardware running the latest releases of iOS as of the time of this writing. We are connected over gigabit fiber. We have a mesh Wi-Fi system which is extremely solid. It is not a bandwidth issue. It is not a hardware issue. It’s not an outdated-OS issue.


Please don’t respond with canned responses that don’t actually solve the problem. The problem cant be solved on my end. Many others have reported this issue. This is clearly a problem iOS+server-side that Apple needs to rectify. It’s obvious that few within Apple actually use this feature. If they did, they would notice all of these bugs right away. It’s barely usable.

Posted on May 27, 2023 12:52 PM

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Posted on Jun 3, 2023 1:07 PM

I have the same issue. Screentime is extremely slow.


you mention that it also resets to blank, I suspect -that- is not the case.


screentime takes extremely long to load, if you wait (this can take more then a minute!) until it is loaded (you know its loaded when date/time under the graph is of “now”) then the settings are there, if you click thru to the settings earlier then they appear empty…


”the good thing” is that that brings the issue down to it beiing extremely slow…


it hapens on wifi and mobile, it happens on different wifi. Both my wif and 5g connection are plenty fast and I have no other issues with connections or speed. Changing dns servers does not help either.


Firstly the whole thing is way to slow and that must be an apple backend server thing..


its also not helping that the thing does not update in the background (and yes: settings are correct, toggling them does not work and battery saving is also off).


furthermore this has been the vase for months in my case. I currently running the beta but the issue was the same whencI was on the latest regular release.


My kids have SE2 phones, I have a 14pro and my wife had an 11pro.


issue arises for me and her and with both kids.

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