kavehv, 28 days ago

@mjtsai Screen Time, and especially the use case of Screen Time with your kids, is woefully inadequate and buggy to boot. So much light needs to be shined on this spot because I'm convinced that Apple doesn't care enough to fix it.

Simple use case: block an app with a time limit of 0 minutes (so you can unlock it for kid later). Most Apple reps intuitively tell me you can and proceed to try to show me how to do it, only to remove their own foot from their mouth in about 10 minutes.

kavehv, 28 days ago

@mjtsai Table-stakes type parental controls just aren't well thought out nor are they robust. Want to unlock an app? Your choices are:

• 15 minutes
• one hour
• all day
• deny
  You can't even set a schedule for app categories or usage. Again, these are table stakes things when it comes to parental controls.

Sure Apple opened an SDK for this, but the only app I found that uses it is https://grace-app.com which offers a little more, but it's similarly limited by Apple’s SDK.

craiggrannell, 27 days ago

@kavehv @mjtsai Needs a kill switch too. The Nintendo Switch has one. Screen Time does not. The whole system winds me up a treat.

https://www.tapsmart.com/features/screen-time-needs-a-kill-switch/

cbirdsong, 27 days ago

@craiggrannell @kavehv @mjtsai it’s also incredible that Screen Time just straight up doesn’t exist on tvOS.

craiggrannell, 27 days ago

@cbirdsong @kavehv @mjtsai I hadn’t even thought of that. Maybe I need to write a deeper feature about Screen Time’s shortcomings… Will mull.

cbirdsong, 26 days ago

@craiggrannell @kavehv @mjtsai if you want to keep kids from bouncing out of Disney+ and into the YouTube app… you can’t.

jsq, 28 days ago

@mjtsai this happened to me when upgrading to a new iPhone. I did the direct device-to-device transfer. For some reason ScreenTime settings were lost.

It took me weeks to notice, and then I learned that app time limits really do help me limit my time.