Screen time not blocking youtube

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!

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.

This is whats happening in my home. I have two boys that i’m trying desparately to help from going onto Youtube and Instagram. This is a HIUGE problem and instagates many battes in our hime. My 12 year old cannot even put his phine away when he goes to sleep and even though Downtime is set before his bedtime, he is on his phine watching Youtube videos!! He has an addiction that was diagnosed by school licensed therapist and which he is now aware of his own issue, trying to get rewarded fir texh time even though he does nothing to earn it or its simply not rhe time to be engaged in tech time-like BEDTIME! Youtube and Instagram is the biggest draw and I too cannot control its usage. Apple, you NEED to fix this or its NOT FAIR that us parents provide our kids with these phones, and unkowingly, without warning, our children are getting lost to addiction. I too thought the Scree Thme Cintrkls wouls save the day, but this is not so. My son will literally go crazy if I takenthe device away. That will aolve yhe problem! Had ai known this can happen, i would NEVER give him a smart phone iphone. This phone took my power away ans my kid away. The only way I can get control is remotely control phone and what and when he has access to, and little by little day by day hope my 12 year old will adapt. If I takenthe phone away entirely or take away access entirely, he will go into withdrawal symptoms! Not pretty and not fun!! I am even wondering if APPLE will help pay for my sons treatment to go through a tech detox program to free him?? Its only the iphone and what he has access to that. Is screwing him up. And I , a single mom, so stupidly gave him ans iphone believeing I could control these features. Parental controls were nothing compared to whats avaialble now, a major boost from what it was like before. But now you have knowledge that theor is a Bug that needs tk get fixed. This is unfair, no parent in theor right mind would hand a device to their kid just to loose them. Its misleading at the very least and negligent in somw ways. Apple misleads parents to believe yhey have cintrol when in fact they dont. This is the truth ans Apple knows the dangers of too much time in general and especially the dangers of content. Youtube cannot be controlled on an Iphone!! Period. Please dknt let us parents believe we can control this when in fact we cant, and it becomes too late.

I would liket o see if Mr Coooke would like tk out my son to bed tonight and even tey to take the ohien away and the deal with his withdrawal symptoms. I wonder if he seees the reality that he will do something immediately about this glitch. Istagram and Youtube need to have better controls for parents. This is a real issue. Please do sonething Apple. And do something Youtube, we have not even discussed what ghe kids have access to with Youtube App.! Porn and other such Adult Content..which our Parental Controls do nothing to protect our kids.

Sincerely,

Another Parent in Distress

Hello, no I did not figure it out yet. I blocked Youtube just to be on the safe side. My kids of course think this is over -the -top!

I plan to go ro an Apple store and see what they recommend.

Apple needs to fix this ASAP. This is a glich or highly misleading to parents thinking we can control the content and amount of time our kids have on Youtube. Its nearly gross neglegence when you start to think of the consequences many kids have just for being on Youtube.com. while using an iPhone. Maybe the glich will be fixed!!

And Youtube really needs to filter everything that gets posted, and require a Youtuber to edit content to make it in alignment with platform rules and regulations. Or deny the posting!!!

Good luck!

Thank you so much for this suggestion, and I hope it works. Safari is a big deal too, so I hope Apple provides a solution to this. The whole point of adding more features to restrictions was for parents to have more control in protecting their kids while using an Apple device. This is is what Apple investors requested so our next generation can have a safe childhood, not screwed up with electronic addictions and seeing content that can harm their underdeveloped minds.

i wonder how many kids know this hack and how many parents just assume their kids are protected because Apple misleads them to beleive so?

Ill try to reset screen time settings and see how that goes!

Many Thanks!!

Downtime was working fine for me until I turned it off so my son could use his iPad at a sleep over. Once I turned it back on, Messages and FaceTime were blocked (despite being in the Always Allow list), and Safari was not blocked. I was able to fix Messages and FaceTime by turning off Screen Time and turning it back on (from my iPhone). Safari is still not blocked. Anyone know how to fix this?

Seriously? This is not Apple’s fault. Sure, ScreenTime is pretty crap, and I feel your pain as I also have teenagers who have complete meltdowns over their phones. But you need to exercise some discipline here. And there are plenty of other apps that do what ScreenTime should do only much better (eg Kidslox, Our Pact, etc). And you can’t get ‘withdrawal symptoms’ from not having a phone. You might get a very angry teen, but not actual physical withdrawal symptoms. Whoever told you that has never studied physiology.

I really feel for Mamadawn4, as I have seen my own children go through device withdrawl symptoms. It is really painful, but in my experience it is the only way to go. You have to take ALL devices off them (and it also meant me and my husband not using a devices in front of the children) then let them work through their emotions. In a couple of weeks you will have a normal healthy child again.

My children are smart enough to get around any parental controls we have set up for them and until a certain age (which will probably vary from child to child) they do not have the skills to resist on their own. Even as an adult I know how hard it can be.

The tech companies need to do something before they find themselves dealing with this through the courts.

I have the same issue. Works for one son and not the other and I am managing both via screen time on my iPhone. Did you figure it out?

I have the same issue! Screen Time blocks and they merely refresh the screen and they are back to the page they were just on in YouTube.

Apple, please fix this!!

It worked on my son’s phone. YouTube is now blocked during downtime. Thank you!

Yes. Apple... youtube is not being blocked on screen time when the kids use Safari to get there. You MUST FIX THIS NOW YOU AWFUL HUMAN BEINGS.

Here’s a thought... be a parent and take the kid’s phone away.

Same issue! Come on Apple... seems like you are protecting the kids interests more than the parents that are purchasing these devices for them. I have tried deleting the YouTube apps and reinstalling. Nothing works for iPad. However I can lick myself out of YouTube on my iPhone X. Brilliant!