Screen Time and Safari

Yes, this is what is meant to happen. I am all over how to adjust settings. The problem is it simply does not work consistently. Everything is set (through all sorts of ways - downtime, blocked app, time limits etc) to ensure the app is blocked but the app remains ‘open’. Some days it works correctly. It is very frustrating. Have tried restarting phones, completing settings changes from both my and the child’s phone but to no avail.

Do I need to block the category if I’ve blocked the app? Sometimes I just want to block Snapchat, not the whole category. The settings for Snapchat are as you describe above. This morning, everything was off, so at some point it worked... perhaps when everything resets at midnight. I’m wondering if you “approve for all day, “ which I did, and then impose a block or a time limit, it doesn’t work until reset at midnight. I really wish Apple would provide a custom time limit. All day is too much. One hour is not enough. I thought I got around this by imposing a time limit on Snapchat after Ivhad approved all day. She got the notice time was up, but Snapchat did not stop working.

That hasn't always been true for me. Sometimes Safari will let me visit any site even if it's supposedly blocked.

I have a somewhat related question. In the App Limits section it says, for example, "Creativity" apps include Google photos, Photos, and 8 more apps. Is there a way to see what those other 8 apps are?

Without Safari being able to be blocked it makes Downtime ineffective. I want to fully limit my sons screen time in the overnight hours and having Safari available subverts this.

Apple: Please release an update soon that allows blocking Safari in Downtime.

Please can someone help me, I have 4 child devices, I have activated screen time, listed the allowed apps that are allowable during downtime but I don’t see safari as an allowed app and yet on all devices it tells me that I have reached my time limit and that my kids can ask for more time.

how has this happened, they need safari for homework so it is now causing a problem. Can someone please advise what I have done.

Thank you

Your fix worked - sort of, lol. It does now trigger screen time unless her last website was YouTube. Then it goes to the video but then 2 seconds in (or so) it blocks the video with the screen time message (saying she can request more time) but the audio still works!! But I guess we are halfway there lol

This is totally ridiculous - I want to put Safari in down time, simple as that, I don’t want a time limit. Apple this is a bug / flaw. Why on earth create down time (at last) but leave THE most problematic app out of it??! Is it some kind of developers joke?

The last time I tried Chrome, the parental controls for browser content restrictions will not apply to the Chrome browser. They only work for Safari. You can set Chrome content restrictions within Chrome itself, but you can't lock them.

As much of a ‘gateway’ safari is, it is an application on my child’s phone that doesn’t respond to downtime. That makes zero sense. This is a bug and should be addressed.

Yep, that’s a great feature but it doesn’t work! It seems Snapchat and Instagram are a law unto themselves and nothing can restrict them!!

I have FaceTime disabled in screen time but my daughter is still able to FaceTime in the phone app. How can I stop that?

I’m having the same problem. Infuriating that I have to “request” more time from myself with every new website I visit.

Yes not being able to block YouTube or safari make screen time controls useless. Great job 👍-1F3FB;

I’ve got the exact opposite problem. I can’t put safari into always allow, so I have to re-authorize every single webpage I visit if I want to look something up.

Thx, this did the job :)

I guess Apple is has happy as my kids with this solution hihi.