Tips app consume hours of screen time on my Mac

Have the same issue on my Macbook air m1.

I think this happened after a minor update from apple.

please fix this it's really annoying.

Same issue here. The app Tips is used 24 hours a day apparently. But it's not even installed on my Mac or my iPhone.

This issue has been on my nerves for a while. I tried to solve it finally today. Here is what I did

1. Kill the Tips app and tips daemon manually. Open Terminal and type

sudo killall Tips tipsd

2.Start an automation to kill the app whenever the computer restarts or you re-login

Here are the steps to create the automation

• Start Automator app
• Select Application
• Click Show library in the toolbar (if hidden)
• Add Run shell script (from the Actions/Utilities)

killall tipsd Tips 2>/dev/null 

• Copy & paste your script into the window
• Test it
• Save somewhere (for example you can make an Applications folder in your HOME, you will get an your_name.app)
• Go to System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> Login items (or System Preferences -> Accounts -> Login items / depending of your MacOS version)
• Add this app

This will make sure that the tipsd will never open unless you really want those tips :)

Honestly Faith if over 180 other people are having this issue is it not fair to assume this is a system wide issue? The usage app is COMPLETELY USELESS because of this issue. I know Apple does not want this.

Is there some ETA on when we can expect this issue to be fixed?

Hello Beeblaine,

Thank you for reaching out to Apple Support Communities, and we'll be happy to help in any way we can. We understand you're having issues with an app reporting that it is always open in Screen Time. Next, what we would recommend, is testing this issue in another user account. What we need to do, is log out of your current user. Log back in under another Standard or Administrator account and see if the same issue occurs there. This way we can tell if it is an issue with your user account, or if it is system wide:Add a user or group on Mac - Apple Support

We hope this helps.

Cheers!

if you are experiencing issues with macOS tips taking 24h time in screen time do this - type "killall tipsd" in terminal it will solve the issue.

yes i have the same problem. i tried rebooting and it did not help. it also occurs on websites on which i have time limit and only occurs when time limit is on, when its off screen time works as it should. [MacBook Pro M1 2021]

I had the same issue. A simple reboot fixed it.

me too I don't know why does this keep happening

I had this issue on my MacBook Pro M2 and rebooting it solved it.