Screentime severely buggy in iOS17

[lordhamster]

I've got two sons 13 and 11. The 13 year old has:

• 15 inch M2 Macbook Air
• M1 iPad air
• iPhone 15 base model

We use screen-time to monitor and enforce his time in games. Since updating to iOS 17, he has been pointing out that the screen-time calculations can't possibly be correct, and based on the evidence I agree with him:

• Two days ago while he was in school, the iPad screentime showed he was playing Roblox for 22 hours straight. Not possible has he DOES sleep, and was at school with zero devices for at least 8 hours that say.
• This morning, he just woke up and the iPad reports he has watched 8 hours of youtube.

The one this morning is particularly puzzling, because I told him to make sure all apps were hard closed (figuring background activity might be counted), also all tabs on his computer browser closed etc. I can confirm he had absolutely zero usage in the timeframe as I had his devices in my home office charging overnight. Makes the screentime feature kindof useless.

Even before this most recent weirdness, often opening an app for 5 minutes, would burn through the entire 1 hour time allowance even if the kids were not in fact using the devices.

 

[StumpyBloke]

Apple are unequivocably unable to get screentime working reliably in any way shape or form be monitoring like you want to do or shared data across devices. It simply does not work and never has. It is an abortion.

All I can suggest is you report it to them.