I remember during the iOS reveal this was a feature that was announced with purchase requests and extra screen time permission requests being sent through iMessage. I thought this was a feature that was being added with iOS16 however I don’t know how to enable this. Does anyone else know or was this feature delayed? Thank you.
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Hi WillfromSmallville,
The ability to approve Screen Time requests was added and is functional as outlined here: Set up Screen Time for a family member on iPhone - Apple Support
"If your child requests more screen time, you can approve or decline the request in Settings > Screen Time or in Messages."
Are you still able to approve the requests via Settings > Screen Time? Are both devices on iOS 16?
Let us know and we'll continue from there.
Cheers!
Hi WillfromSmallville,
The ability to approve Screen Time requests was added and is functional as outlined here: Set up Screen Time for a family member on iPhone - Apple Support
"If your child requests more screen time, you can approve or decline the request in Settings > Screen Time or in Messages."
Are you still able to approve the requests via Settings > Screen Time? Are both devices on iOS 16?
Let us know and we'll continue from there.
Cheers!
I figured out my issue. The requests go to my Apple ID email. On my phone, I only had iMessage to my cell phone number. Once I went in and clicked on the Apple ID email too, I am now getting the screen requests via iMessage!
So i was wondering about this as well as they advertised it would work. Nothing has been showing on my iPhone with iOS 16, but yesterday I installed iPad OS 16 and miracle, this showed up today! I came here looking for a bug bc as you can see it shows “mommy requested” versus my kid’s name. This is how it looked in iMessage
Screen Time request via iMessage?
