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Screen time share across devices?
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When enabled the first page shows the device specific screen time, selecting all devices shows the total usage for all devices.
netnothing
macrumors 68040
Guessing this is a bug.....I have an iPhone and iPad. I turned ON the share across devices, but then I decided I didn't want that. However, even after turning off the sharing and turning off/on screen time on each.....it's still stuck with the All Devices view by default. If you select the other device, no data is shown. Kind of annoying though.
netnothing
macrumors 68040
Yup same here. Seems that at least it's just a labeling issue.....as there is never any data for the other device.
My OCD wasn’t having it. Ended up doing a restore from the morning off before I upgraded to iOS12 on both iPhone and iPad.
Finally back to before I decided to share screen time across devices. iPad only shows iPad and iPhone only shows iPhone. Life is good. Lol
netnothing
macrumors 68040
I'll be doing a backup and restore when my XS Max arrives Friday....will be interested to see if that fixes it or not. Thankfully I'm not looking at the screen time too much.
Yes, seeing the same thing. Note that on my phone it seemed to delete all the existing days of tracking data when I turned sharing on (its like it just started again from that point) and it did not come back when I turned it off. Perhaps the data is there and the issue is purely that there is a bug with string turning off.
netnothing
macrumors 68040
I did a backup and restore to my new XS Max. That fixed this issue on the phone. iPad still shows All Devices.
pinkoos
macrumors 6502a
Sounds like your problems are somewhat similar to mine:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/parent-child-screen-time-bug-incorrect-device-name.2140011/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/parent-child-screen-time-bug-incorrect-device-name.2140011/
Has anyone noticed a bug where the all devices data is showing different across each device it’s not syncing correctly my iPhone says 1hr 52 mins and iPad says 1hr 5 mins anyone else seeing this
Apple weren't meant to fix this back in 12.1 I think ive notice improvements but see a gap of 2 across both devices sometimes its perfect sometimes though. only a gap of 2 so its no major but still nice to have it working as it should be. perhaps it would be an idea to leave feedback for them too
betman
macrumors 6502
Does selecting 'share across devices' mean that all of a child's devices will be limited if they use up all their allocated time on one of them?
I have it ticked but for some reason my child is still able to move from iPad to iPhone once their time is up and continue playing/being online.
Or maybe it kicks in automatically the following day (after midnight)?
I have it ticked but for some reason my child is still able to move from iPad to iPhone once their time is up and continue playing/being online.
Or maybe it kicks in automatically the following day (after midnight)?