How do I stop my child self approving screen time extension for her iPhone on the family iPad

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How do I stop my child self approving screen time extension for her iPhone on the family iPad

My daughter has an iPhone with screen time limits set. If she sends a “more time” request once she has used up all her allowance, the request comes to my or my wife’s phone. To approve the extension on our iPhones, we need to enter the screen time code.

The problem is, the request also goes to our family iPad and she can approve the request there, without having to enter a screen code code. How can we make it so that she has to enter the screen time request on the iPad - which will stop her self approving the requests…

Please help!

iPad (9th generation)

Posted on Sep 11, 2023 02:03 PM

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LotusPilot

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Sep 11, 2023 04:30 PM in response to Help_me-please_apple

"Family iPad"? Herein lies your issue.

Outside of Educational and Enterprise establishments, iPad and iPhone are principally intended to be a single-user device - and are not intended to shared in the same manner as you may be accustomed when using a Windows PC or Mac computer - which have multiple user profiles/accounts.

In conclusion, your child having access to a shared iPad that itself lacks the restrictions applied to your child's iPhone, effectively circumvents the very controls that you wish to apply.

There are two straightforward solutions:

a) deny access to the "shared" iPad by your child

b) if your child requires access to a large screen device, consider investing in a separate iPad for your child - to be used with your child's AppleID - that employs the same restrictions as your child's iPhone.

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