Screen Time - poor language choices - no zero minute per day limit

Screen Time has a couple of very confusing language choices:

UX team, are you listening?


1.

"Block at End of Limit":

Nope, the Limitation STARTS when the app is blocked.

So this should say: "Block at Start of Limit", or "Block at End of Allowed Time".


2.

"Downtime - Off until schedule":

If the Downtime is OFF, that means foremost that there is NO DOWNTIME SCHEDULED: the Downtime setting is OFF.

This should say: "Downtime - Scheduled"


3.

Why can't I not set an App Limit to ZERO minutes?

Isn't the whole purpose of the Screen Time too LIMIT usage?

So now, let' say I set the minimum time for Games & Education apps, which is 1 Minute: Everyone of these apps can be used for the duration of 1 minute!!

This results in nonsense notifications like: "Time Check - 5 minutes remaining for Games, …", although those apps were all set to only 1 minute.


I will add annotated screen shots in response.

Please get some better UX people on this. It's infuriating.


And: Brian_P7 and Michael Black: please refrain from answering here. Your previous responses to related tweets were not helpful, and lacked clarifying details.






Posted on May 14, 2023 9:24 AM

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