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Eric Idle

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Looking at my daughter's screen time stats I see an overall time of 5 hours of usage on her phone per day. Then there is a list of apps that she's used and the time on each. When you total up these times they in no way come close to 4 hours of time. More like 2 hours. How to account for this extreme difference? If she is playing music on her phone while studying, is that adding time to her screen time? Her Apple Music time is listed only as 12 minutes, but I know she listens to a lot of music.

How to know what is the real amount of time the devices are being used?

Thank you.
 
Screen Time has never worked properly. It doesn’t work at all for me. I wouldn’t rely on it to police usage time.
 
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Screen Time has never worked properly. It doesn’t work at all for me. I wouldn’t rely on it to police usage time.
Another miserable effort from Tim Cook's Apple. Pathetic. So much for Apple's great "ecosystem".

Any 3rd party options?
 
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