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

I have the same issue. This feature worked great until today on my son’s iPad that he received for his birthday on December 27th. Now the apps have the option to ignore limit during downtime. The screen time for the iPad is not displaying on my phone for today. It’s almost as if the two are no longer connected to each other. I have tried everything suggested here. I really hope Apple fix this.

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!!!!

Doesn’t work at all

no matter how often I go and set up

• downtime
• app linits
• content restrictions

i go and check later to find they have either been wiped or altered on the child’s device

in addition even when the apple limit is not removed the device does not respect the limit

e.g. Set a limit of 30 mins on a given app then see it’s been used for over an hour and a half!

this is not acceptable from apple

this has obviously not gone through rigorous testing

Probably not justvthat. For messages probably. I have the same issue. Sometimes she is blocked and has to request more time but other times it does nothing. I actually put the limit in as she was watching something beside me and nothing happened. Diwn time came and went nothing. I did adjust all the settings so she has access only to phone messages and kindle.

Downtime seems pretty useless when my daughter can simply just adjust the Date/time on the iPhone to be within the right time to continue to play... perhaps Apple need to offer an option to restrict the ability of changing Date/Time.

fundamental flaw

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 :(

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?

I noticed this too. The ‘per app toggle’ was added recently, which resolved the issue I was having.

still waiting on a response. will follow up in next 24-48 hrs and let you know.

i admit they don't seem to be able to ignore anymore. My block at downtime is on. will have to follow up with them this evening. thx for all your replies and advice

Click on

Check it again, read my post... after “correcting “ the issues it will work for a day or two and then be down again.

Same issue for me. Screen time was working great. Something changed. Now the block at the end of limit toggle keeps toggling off.

Screentime is now useless. Apple - GET IT FIXED.

Same problem here. Was working great, but just noticed this evening my kids were sending messages after downtime. Something did change.