I've been checking my screen time and there was a lot continuous activity from midnight on... often 5-8 hours. This occurred even when my phone was off. At first showed as "social" then just as dark grey blocks in the graph.
Anybody have an idea what this is about?
iPhone 11 Pro, iOS 18
Understanding Screen Time Graph (Grey Bar explained)
All apps have been assigned to certain categories in iTunes. Screen Time has chosen top 8 categories and have put all remaining categories in a category called "Others".
There are 9 Categories in Screen Time
The graph displays top 3 (Time used by user) category legends in X axis. Anything other than these legend categories is Grey bar in the graph
For example:
If the user has used Social Networking, Reading and Reference and Others category apps for the maximum time during a time span. The graph will show these three categories in the X axis as legends and remaining categories (Remaining apps which has used less than 6 min account for what is being shown in Grey Colour.
See the pic below explained
Understanding Screen Time Graph (Grey Bar explained)
All apps have been assigned to certain categories in iTunes. Screen Time has chosen top 8 categories and have put all remaining categories in a category called "Others".
There are 9 Categories in Screen Time
The graph displays top 3 (Time used by user) category legends in X axis. Anything other than these legend categories is Grey bar in the graph
For example:
If the user has used Social Networking, Reading and Reference and Others category apps for the maximum time during a time span. The graph will show these three categories in the X axis as legends and remaining categories (Remaining apps which has used less than 6 min account for what is being shown in Grey Colour.
See the pic below explained
Thanks SravanKrA,
Excellent response. I now understand how it works, but the graphs I had looked similar to what you picked for you explainatory diagram. Which is to say it was many hours of screen time...generated while I was sleeping.
Any thoughts on what could explain that?
Grey Bars on Screen Time notification?
