Screen time not blocking youtube

i was having the same issue. Snap, insta, YouTube and safari still available during downtime. And the time limit I set for social media apps was not working either. Tried a bunch of things, but what worked for now is to: Turn off screen time, go to “Settings”, “General”, at the very bottom of the screen select “Reset” and choose “Reset all Settings”. (This doesn’t lose any data.) Once phone has Reset go back and redo the screentime limits. When I did this at least snap, insta and YouTube were blocked during downtime like they should be. Safari still available. Not perfect but better than it was.

I had the same issue and have found the solution which was relatively simple. YouTube gets automatically added to the Always allowed apps list which overrides any limits you place on apps. Once you remove YouTube from the always allowed list, your limits will work. To remove it, go to Screen Time, click on "Always Allowed" and tap on the red dot next to YouTube in the list and select "remove". You limits for YouTube should now be working.

I hope this helps!

Here’s a fun one. The blocking capability IS working on my son’s iPhone, but like all kids, they find ways to circumvent. I would hear my son in the bathroom watching youtube when I know and tested it was blocked. He was opening the messaging app, which allows you to upload files or attachments. One of the options to upload in Messages is YouTube. When you click the icon, it shows what videos you’ve watched most recently, and provides a search bar to search YouTube directly. And in screen time, the messaging app is essential to allow screen time to work. I limited him to 15 minutes of using the messaging app. Just hope he never needs to text me in an emergency situation. I’ll tell you, my kids are going to earn their doctorates in finding ways to watch youtube on anything with internet access.

I have “all apps” limited under the general settings at 1.5 hours.... they break through w/ the YouTube “glitch” and still watch... I found the toggle “include web info” turned ON plus going through their recent online activity and finding the individual topics YouTube/ Instagram all the glitch ones they still find a way to access and put time limits on those individual areas as well.... since I have done that: poof NO MORE UNLIMITED BREAK THROUGHS. I had the main thing restricted to “all apps” but they found loopholes... now with each restriction added as I see which site is visited in their lists, adding more individual restrictions has SOLVED all the extra screen time they were sneaking. Apple does it a bit, but parents need to go through each individual item and add restrictions that’s THE ONLY WAY to solve the issue. Include safari/ web browsing in the toggle and hint for the pesky sites you also were hoping Apple would have restricted but lagged on helping with. Add limits to each web item and your issues get solved... except now my phone blows up in requesting additional time but at least I know I finally won and am in control. That’s the proof knowing you did it & solved the loopholes being done. Kids get annoyed it’s blocked (verbally showing annoyed) and s teen time requests start coming blasting through (bc the block was successful)

hope this helps!!

Add an age restriction which will block YouTube ALL the time. YouTube is a +17 app. I just changed my 5yr old to +4 apps only. BAM no more YouTube!

You need to go into their history and block what they are using w a time individually. Apple doesn’t do it well enough, but digging through and not relying on apples “all apps” is the way to go. Limit YouTube, limit safari all by them selves and be sure to include “website data” is toggled. Apple “all apps” is not reliable but if you go through the individual parts they use and set limits on each one—- THATS YOUR HELP. I have 5 kids. They did the same thing until I dig deeper trying for sanity of their loopholes... this worked. They were mad as heck it’s now blocked w their time and they request screen time so I know it’s working. This is your help/ trust me. It’s WORKING FINALLY the way “screen time” was intended

This is what worked for me in order to block YouTube the app and YouTube the website on safari. Once I was able to block the app again it automatically worked in safari, I took no extra steps to block the website for downtime. 

It took me 3 HOURS to finally block YouTube again because I know for sure it use to block since I was able to unblock the app on Christmas when it first locked for the downtime settings. 

So what happened in my case was that I put in the passcode for the screen time in front of my child and set a passcode that he knew (I know stupid me, I was out smarted by an 8 yr old) and that one time I put in the code I allowed for it to extend the YouTube app usage for an ENTIRE DAY, the settings allow 1 minute, 15 minutes, or a whole day. 

Since my child knew the passcode he kept unlocking YouTube for an entire day. So at 7am on 1/8 he unlocked it so when the downtime was to start at 9pm that same day YouTube technically still had another 10 hours left for the “extra day” that was already allowed. 

I tried everything but wiping out the entire iPad, (which I was going to do tomorrow after work, if I didn’t figure this out)So I deleted YouTube, reset the settings, blocked the website(which just blocked the website completely), changed the limit per day, turned off and on screen time, a million times, restart both my phone and the iPad, NOTHING WORKED. 

I had a hunch that it not being blocked had to do with that one extension this morning. So my next and FINAL idea was to change the date and time on the iPad. In order to do that I had to turn of all the screen time settings on my phone and the iPad in order for the iPad to allow me to change the date. I changed the date on my phone as well as the iPad. I fast forward the date exactly 24 hours so to 11:30pm 1/9 instead of 1/8 in my case. Then I turned the screen time back on from my from my phone and LO AND BEHOLD YOUTUBE WAS BLOCKED. The app was blocked and so was the website! Also my time and date went back to normal on both my iPhone and the iPad on it’s own once I enable the screen time. 

I had already changed the passcode this morning once I realized that my first attempt at changing the passcode was unsuccessful. So I’m reality the root of all this for me was that my child had the passcode and was extending the usage for an entire day, hence the app not blocking at the set downtime. 

I hope that this might help at least one of you in here. Maybe at least one of your children have the passcode and you don’t even know it and they are doing the same thing my child was doing.

Being frustrated to the bone on this,

I have turned off the Screentime via Parental control via my personal iPhone.

And then turned on the Screentime (as Parent) on the phones of my children.

Then limited the use of YouTube and the social apps which seems to work for now.

As a parent you need to be very diligent in this as there is many ways to access YouTube via other Apps, think Safari and Chrome and Messages and even educational apps, so it is like a continuous patching process.

Best way is to confiscate the phones from time to time and look for the holes by examining the screentime per App.

The children will be incentivized like **** to to find any opportunity to work around.

Also be very very careful never to show your passkey to the children, you have no idea how far they will go for that.

I am amazed that Apple is getting away with this for so long as their claims on Screentime are simply misleading parents in believing they can control the highly addictive use of smart phones to children’s brains with all its negative consequences.

Who is going to take Apple to court on this?

Who is going to address this in their shareholders meeting?

There are a few ways to “cure” the screen time problem.

You can choose to completely block access to YouTube on your child’s device by:

• go to screen time on your phone and choose your child
• Go to “content and privacy restrictions”
• click on “web content” and scroll down
• chose “never allowed” and type the web address of the website your child should not access: YouTube, tumblr, etc.
• choose

Same here. Until there's a fix, I deleted the YouTube app and told my daughter she could watch YouTube videos thru the Google app. ScreenTime works with the Google app. Ironically, I couldn't get ScreenTime to block Safari, either. So I removed her ability to use Safari and installed the Google app in its place.

I was able to make it work but I am not sure what ultimately did the trick. I disabled/enabled screen time for my son from my iPhone through and then blocked YouTube and I also did the screentime configuration from his iPhone instead of from my iPhone and now Youtube is blocked.

I found this loophole in the settings:

1) set a 2 hour limit for all apps, but do not "block at end of limit"

2) set a 3 hour limit for all apps, and "block at end of limit"

3) start YouTube

4) when the warning appears that screen time is almost up, tap "allow for rest of day"

YouTube will keep running after 3 hours because it was already allowed all day.

I thought I was helping my kids develop their own self control by having a 2 hour warning. Turns out I was just giving them a loophole!

Device addiction is a huge issue for every parent I speak to. We purchased a new iphone for our eldest child specifically because we had read about the new parental controls, but are now feeling let down.

Guess what? Apple removed my “screen time controls “ posting because its “non constructive”

unbelievable...

please take note, they don't want me to mention anything

this is mamadawn4@me.com

im concerned like all of you for our kids having too much access and too much adult access while using Apple devices and letting Apple know and hope they read out posts about these concerns. We are all bewildered on how to protect our child's minds and development and still use an iphone or ipad. I dint understand why they would remove my post rather than address the concern. All of our concerns! So Apple takes a legitimate concern and removes it from anyone to see. I believe I made valid points, one being that not just the parents buying these devices and trusting we have the controls they say we have, but also how the shareholders want the same thing. Both for the same reason: to protect this generation, our children. Their children and grandchildren. To Protect their minds and safeguard a healthy development in the digital age. And I do believe it’s misleading. Now that I know for sure Apple is aware of what seems to be a glitch or a hack, because they removed my post , then perhaps they will begin to find a solution? Its clear they intended to give us controls to monitor screen time, but its also clear the controls are not as efficient as we would like. As we NEED in order actually to do the job of PROTECTING our kids.

I hope this reply will not be removed. ☹️

Like many of the others who have posted here I have tried many combinations of things to get Screen Time to work reliably and correctly to limit apps such as YouTube, Instagram and several other social media apps. Things I have spent literally days trying over the past year are:

• Resinstalling these apps
• Disabling and reenabling Screen Time settings
• Restarting phones
• Ensuring latest S/W updates are applied
• Changing passcodes
• Using both on-device and Family Sharing options to configure the limits

Clearly there's something wrong with these limiting features. And it is very frustrating that Apple has continue to chip away at the options that 3rd party S/W vendors have to help parents with managing the device (time and content). Norton - flawed, but still one of the better options can't limit Apps, monitor social media, etc. on iOS due to restrictions in the Apps and iOS.

If you are going to squeeze everyone else out, you better make sure your own options work. If you are going to point the finger at these Apps, then do what you do best - call them out and enforce rules on what Apps are available in the App Store. Make them put up a warning or remove them altogether. Trust me, these bigger App vendors will fix their stuff as soon as they can no longer get away with it.

Stop worrying about the next gen iPhone and take some time to catch up on everything else you have already put out there.