Broken Screen Time Settings

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Ayayslay wrote:

yo Apple.

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Ayayslay wrote:

With iOS 27 yall already made it more difficult than it is. With that “all is built on categories” reskin.

Not every issue an individual encounters on their device can be attributed to an iOS update. iOS 27 or later may have coincided with what you are experiencing, but that does not mean the issue was triggered by iOS. Coincidence in timing is not, by itself, evidence of causation.

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The absence of such widespread reports strongly indicates that the issue is not a general, system-wide problem with iOS 27 or later, but rather something specific to the individual device, its configuration, installed apps, settings, hardware, or another interacting factor.

In short: iOS 27 or later may be a coincidence in timing, but there is no basis to conclude that iOS itself triggered the problem simply because the issue appeared after the update.

See what each update does: About iOS 27 Updates, About iOS 26 Updates, About iOS 18 Updates, About iOS 17 Updates, About iOS 16 Updates, About iOS 15 Updates, About iOS 14 Updates, About iOS 13 Updates, About iOS 12 Updates, and so on...

Understanding Screen Time Graph (Grey Bar explained)

All apps have been assigned to certain categories in iTunes. Screen Time has chosen top 8 categories and have put all remaining categories in a category called "Others".

There are 9 Categories in Screen Time

1. Social Networking: FaceBook, Hangout, Instagram
2. Games : Scrabble, PUBG
3. Entertainment: Netflix, Amazon Music
4. Creativity: Photos, Google Photos
5. Productivity: HDFC Bank
6. Education: SkyView, Learn Python
7. Reading & Reference: Kindle, NDTV
8. Health & Fitness: BeatO, Health, Activity
9. Others : Big Basket, 

The graph displays top 3 (Time used by user) category legends in X axis. Anything other than these legend categories is 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 remaining categories (Remaining apps which has used less than 6 min account for what is being shown in Grey Colour.

See the pic below explained

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