Snapchat not blocked during downtime by screentime


This issue seems to have been around for years without a proper fix. It happened to me again today. I believe on this occasion it was caused by me agreeing to my daughter's extra time request for Snapchat during her downtime yesterday. I agreed to "all day" and it seems from this that snapchat and/or apple interpret this to be allow Snapchat indefinitely. Today when her normal downtime hours go into force everything was blocked as normal except Snapchat.


I tried wiping and restoring her phone from scratch. Did no good.


The way I fixed it was


  1. I removed Snapchat from my phone. Don't know if this was relevant, but I did it so am noting her.
  2. I logged her out of her phone via logging out her iCloud account on phone.
  3. I removed her from our family group using my own iPhone.
  4. I logged out of my phone by logging out of my iCloud account on my phone.
  5. I logged her back into her iCloud account on her phone.
  6. I logged me back into my iCloud account on my phone.
  7. I addedd her again to our family group via my phone.
  8. I set up screentime/downtime for her via my phone and success.


Very unhelpful that users are left to find these make do solutions rather than Apple/Snapchat fixing the issue properly.

iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 18

Posted on May 5, 2025 7:47 AM

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