Screen Time App Limits

I believe that many people are experiencing similar problems with Screen Time. My specific issue is that my app limits don’t stay. If I set the whole category, then it sticks. But, for example, I don’t want to block all of “Entertainment”, instead I pick the apps that I need a limit on (YouTube). These apps are paired with the “Games” category.Then, at some point the YouTube limit disappears, but “Games” is still active. I wish we could just cherry pick the apps we need limited without the need for it being in a category. I have four children with limits, and it happens to all of their devices. I’ve done full resets, and no change in the app limits behavior.

iPad (7th generation)

Posted on Apr 30, 2023 05:24 AM

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Posted on Apr 30, 2023 05:53 AM

Vurkular wrote:

Yes. It’s not just YouTube, it’s any individual apps that are selected in a group of apps. The problem is the same across four devices. It’s 100% an iOS problem. Never posted to the forums before, but I hoped that if it was posted enough that Apple might actually fix it.

If it’s all individual and you want to bring it to the attention of Apple you can do that on the product feedback page: Product Feedback - Apple I’d say you’d want to report it under iPad because it seems to be an iPad OS problem.


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Apr 30, 2023 05:53 AM in response to Vurkular

Vurkular wrote:

Yes. It’s not just YouTube, it’s any individual apps that are selected in a group of apps. The problem is the same across four devices. It’s 100% an iOS problem. Never posted to the forums before, but I hoped that if it was posted enough that Apple might actually fix it.

If it’s all individual and you want to bring it to the attention of Apple you can do that on the product feedback page: Product Feedback - Apple I’d say you’d want to report it under iPad because it seems to be an iPad OS problem.


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