screen time bugs?

[mlody]

we have a screen time enabled for our daughter which is very aggressive prompting her to prompt for allowed time daily. After the recent upgrades, the two following things happened; the screen time requests come in as messages, cloging our message conversations, and when responding the screen time request on an Apple Watch, that screen time is not working, meaning, even if I allow more time via Apple Watch, that info is not being sent to my daughter. This forces me to use and respond to screen time requests only via my iPhone. Is anyone else experiencing these issues?

 

[Itinj24]

I see the new requests come in via iMessage but I haven’t tried it on my watch yet.

One really annoying Screen Time bug in iOS 16 that I reported to Apple is that my kids’ Screen Time settings randomly reset to defaults. The schedules, the permissions and restrictions, etc, just toggle themselves off. I’ve had to redo their setting at least six times already.

It’s been a mess. Boggles my mind how they can add one feature and screw up five previously working features. I don’t remember any Screen Time updates slated for iOS 16 so why is it such trash all of a sudden?

 

[Corgirat]

I continue to get a pop up saying “screen time on this iPad will not sync with your iPhone until iPad is updated to the latest software” when all of our devices were updated already.

 

[Corgirat]

Can someone suggest Apple to make the erasing of screen time text messages easier? I have to manually select them to delete and is super annoying!

 

[neo61uk]

I see the new requests come in via iMessage but I haven’t tried it on my watch yet.

One really annoying Screen Time bug in iOS 16 that I reported to Apple is that my kids’ Screen Time settings randomly reset to defaults. The schedules, the permissions and restrictions, etc, just toggle themselves off. I’ve had to redo their setting at least six times already.

It’s been a mess. Boggles my mind how they can add one feature and screw up five previously working features. I don’t remember any Screen Time updates slated for iOS 16 so why is it such trash all of a sudden?

I just came in to this thread for this very reason. Since iOS 16 screen time is a mess. I set my daughter limits and downtime and it just randomly reset with no reason. Sometimes after a week and next time after a day.

Did you get any reply from apple by any chance?
Not sure what to do as I need this to control her iPhone.

Thanks

 

[Corgirat]

I just came in to this thread for this very reason. Since iOS 16 screen time is a mess. I set my daughter limits and downtime and it just randomly reset with no reason. Sometimes after a week and next time after a day.

Did you get any reply from apple by any chance?
Not sure what to do as I need this to control her iPhone.

Thanks

I don’t have Apple Watch but I had same resetting issue earlier before 16.2 update. It’s up to you to try this, but I did erase all of my devises and my kids devices then restored from iCloud backup. I set up screen time from scratch. It’s all working as it should now. But now I’m annoyed by requests bombarding iMessages thread with my kid. I don’t need to keep records of all the screen time I approved on my messages, and in my kids messages taking up all the iCloud space and deleting them each time is such a hassle.

 

[neo61uk]

I don’t have Apple Watch but I had same resetting issue earlier before 16.2 update. It’s up to you to try this, but I did erase all of my devises and my kids devices then restored from iCloud backup. I set up screen time from scratch. It’s all working as it should now. But now I’m annoyed by requests bombarding iMessages thread with my kid. I don’t need to keep records of all the screen time I approved on my messages, and in my kids messages taking up all the iCloud space and deleting them each time is such a hassle.

I have my issue since iOS 16 not since 16.2 mins. So couple months now.
But until now requests still coming as pop ups not a messages. So not sure what’s that about?