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Wrong screen time recorded in my iPhone

I have read through all posts and it doesn’t make sense. I have 3h usage and with gray out bar it is showing 6h ish. I added up time from all apps and it doesn’t add up. I did not even use my phone before 11 as I was sleeping. Can anyone explain that to me. Please do not say that it is other apps when they not listed and as I said I was sleeping till nearly noon.




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iPhone 15 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Dec 30, 2024 1:52 PM

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Dec 30, 2024 9:03 PM in response to KAT_PL

Refer to Pic 3 below, there are three Categories*** displayed Social "1" (Blue), Utilities "9" (Aqua), and Health & Fitness "8" (Orange).

Every other Category*** is shown as Grey. i.e. 2,3,4,5,6,7,10,11, and 12



Refer to the list of Categories listed below and pic 1 where Category Serial No. 1 (Social), 7 (Reading), and 12 (Others) are shown Blue, Aqua, and Orange

In this case (Pic 1), all other categories serial nos. 2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10 and 11 are Grey


Pic 1




Look at the pic 2 below a cut-out view of a screen from an earlier old post


Pic 2


Total Screen Time is a+b+c



*** There are 12 board level Categories in Screen Time

  1. Social Networking: FaceBook, Hangout, Instagram
  2. Games: Scrabble, PUBG, Sudoku
  3. Entertainment: TV, Music, YouTube, Netflix
  4. Creativity: Photos, Camera, Google Photos
  5. Productivity: Shortcuts, Mailk
  6. Education: SkyView, Learn Python
  7. Information & Reading: Wikipedia, Magzter, Weather, Kindle, NDTV
  8. Health & Fitness: Journal, Tata 1mg, HeartRate Pro, Activity
  9. Utilities: App Store, Measure, Truecaller, Calculator
  10. Shopping and Food: Amazon, BigBasket, Shell Asia
  11. Travel: Apple Maps, Google Maps, FlightAware, Booking.com, Uber
  12. Others: Pinterest, iTunes Store, Kia Connect


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



Pic 3



For example:

If the user has used Games, Entertainment & Others category apps for the maximum time during a period then the graph will show these three categories in the X axis as legends and the remaining categories will be shown in Grey Colour.


The GIF below will illustrate the graph from 3 iOS devices

iPhone 6 iOS 12.4.5

iPhone SE iOS 13.3.1

iPad Pro 9.7" Wifi+Cellular iOS 13.3.1


GIF 1

Wrong screen time recorded in my iPhone

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