Screen Time shows "Ignore Limit" on child's iPhone

Dougqc, did Apple ever get back to you? Am having same problem. :/

Thank you for this tip! This absolutely resolved this issue for me on an iPad. I still haven't downloaded the new iOS 12 for iPhone. I will wait till 12.1 comes out before downloading, but in the mean time, at least it works on my iPad now. =)

hi, Did you get a meaningful response from Apple? I have also discovered that Apple seem to have back-doors to everything and are not taking child-protection seriously at all. They state that they have parental control, but on inspection, its meaningless. Ive not had helpful reponses from Apple - have you?

We have selected all options: block at end of limit for each app and Block at down time. However, our daughter still gets an option Ignore the time limit, which makes screen time pretty useless. We didn’t have this problem before, but now it persists.

This is beyond frustrating! It’s a great concept but doesn’t consistently work. The password disappears, the time limits increase without me doing so, and all the settings I input randomly change or disappear. Please Apple fix this much needed parental control or come up with another option!

I have the same issue (and other technical issues) and called in to Apple for help. I'm amazed at how little knowledge Apple support has about their own app! And until they release an update much suffering will occur :(

Yes. Unfortunately, the option to block at downtime is already checked. It’s been checked from the beginning and used to actually block them, but no longer does.

There is no option to require a passeord?

I had the same issue but got it fixed. The first time I setup I didn’t click on the “Use Timesceen Pass Code” to setup a passcode. I went back in and click on it to setup a passcode and the issue went away.

Same happened to me. Was working fine until last night. Now, my children have the option to ignore a restriction without a passcode. Also, my son’s Snapchat and Twitter aren’t locked at all even thought they’re on his blocked list and we’re within the restricted timeframe. Tried all the suggestions listed here and nothing has worked.

Same here. I turned off the screen time controls to my kids phone (on my phone) in order to download an app on my kids phone. When I turned screentime back on, my kid now has the option to “ignore” the screentime limit when literally 5 minutes befor it had been successfully blocking. So frustrating. I’m losing faith in this app. This is the second bug I’ve found tonight.

I am also having the same problem. It works sometimes and then other times just says "ignore limit". I have two iPads set up the same way. One Never gives problems and the other often does. I have a passcode set up , block at downtime is on. Turning it off and on again works but it's not sustainable. My son says it's when he is full screen on the You Tube app. Although that's Not always true. I hope it's fixed soon.

I solved my problem. I original setup down time without a password so if they hit ignore it ignored for that day, maybe even longer. I went back and set a password and then hit block as well. Still the app that I hit ignore on was still allowed, the app was messenger despite me removing it from the allowed list. I then went to RESET PHONE SETTINGS and the phone reset just he settings. I put the WiFi password in and then went back and did password, then downtime, block and all the apps I wanted locked were locked.

I am hopinng this shuts shuts down my kids apps and phone basically when I don’t want them on it and I’m not around to police them 24/7.

Same here. Have all settings up, pass-code enabled, block after limit expired both on downtime and daily quota. Still, apps, when opened, allow "Ignore" link, which renders whole feature useless for parent control.

This feature could be a game-changer for families, I'd put fixing it on high priority if I were Apple.

This is happening to us, too, and it’s very frustrating. I was using Qustodio on my kids’s Phones for about 6 months when Apple introduced Screentime. I thought it was a life saver at first. Qustodio has quite a lag time due to it's use of a VPN which wasn’t in necessarily the US, and Apple’s Screentime was so much more responsive and let them use all their apps. (They are teens so their apps are important to their social lives 🙄) But in the past few weeks it will sometimes allow them to ignore their screen time limits and will not block them at the end. It’s super frustrating and I am considering putting Qustodio back on their phones, although there were many arguments over its use. FIX THIS APPLE!!!!