How to Use Screen Time on Apple Devices?

I. What is Screen Time?

Screen Time, or screen usage time, is a new device feature announced by Apple at WWDC 2018 to address smartphone addiction. This feature helps parents understand how much time they or their children spend on each app. This way, you can have a clearer picture of where your time is being spent, and you can set limits as needed. In addition to summarizing data such as the usage time of iPhone/iPad, the usage time of each application, or the number of device usage per hour and notifying the user, this function can also restrict the use of iPhone and each application through remote operation. It can be described as the natural enemy of “Internet addicted teenagers”.

II. How to use the Screen Time function to limit the usage time of the device?

To use the Screen Time function, you need to install at least iOS12 on your iPhone/iPad, so older models that cannot be updated to iOS12 and above will not be able to use this function. In addition, regarding the available terminals, the iPhone device must be a model after iPhone 5s; the iPad must be a model after iPad mini2, and the iPod must be iPod touch (6th generation).

Turn on the Screen Time function to restrict home devices

The specific operation steps are as follows:

Step 1: Turn on the device and find “Settings” – “Screen Time” – “Set Screen Time for Family”. Then select “Continue” or “Set as Parent/Guardian” to enable the Screen Time feature.

Step 2: After adding the Apple account of the family member you want to supervise, the added device will appear in the device at the top of the page, click on the name of the device you want to supervise, and the page will display the user’s detailed usage time allocation of each APP. You can find out how the device is used on a daily and weekly basis, screen and device time; how many times it is picked up; how many times it receives notifications, and more.

Set an iPhone downtime

Go back to the homepage of the Screen Time function setting, there are five options: “Outage Time”, “App Limit”, “Limit Communication”, “Always Allow” and “Content and Privacy Access Restriction”. You can disable an account from viewing the iPhone/iPad’s screen by enabling “Block Time” and setting the start and end time. Also during the downtime, only permitted apps and phone features will be available.

It should be noted here that this stop time setting applies to all devices that have logged into the iCloud account, so please make sure you know the number of devices that will be deactivated.

Limit usage time of individual apps

In “APP Limit”, you can set the daily usage time of a single application, the specific operation steps are as follows:

Step 1: Find “APP Limit”, click “Add Limit”, and the system will classify the applications in the device by default. Find the category of the APP you want to limit, then you can find the APP and add restrictions.

Step 2: Check the application that you want to limit the usage time, and click “Next” to set the limited time. After setting, click “Add” in the upper right corner.

Set apps that are always allowed

In daily life, applications such as messages and calls must be used. You can add the necessary APPs in “Always Allow”. Once added successfully, these applications can still be used as usual even during the “stop time” .

The specific operation steps are as follows:

Find “Always Allow” and click it, select an app that is always allowed and click the “+” in front of it. If you want to remove an app that is always allowed, you can click the “-” in front of it.

Set restrictions on content and privacy access

The setting of “Content and Privacy Access Restrictions” is a more detailed content. For example, you can restrict your children to purchase any APP; or restrict the content they can access, such as prohibiting access to adult websites and not allowing multiplayer games. etc.

The specific operation steps are as follows:

Click to enter the “Content and Privacy Access Restrictions” interface. After turning on this button, all the content modules that can be set will be displayed one by one. You can personalize the restriction settings according to your personal needs.

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