Guide to using Screen Time on Apple devices

I. What is Screen Time?

Screen Time, or Screen Time, is a new device feature announced by Apple at WWDC 2018, to combat the problem of smartphone addiction. The feature assists parents in understanding how much time they or their children are spending on each app. This gives a clearer picture of where the time is being spent and allows you to set limits as needed. In addition to summarizing a week’s worth of iPhone/iPad usage time, the time spent on each app, or the number of times the device is used per hour and notifying the user, the feature also allows you to limit the use of the iPhone and each app through remote operation. It is a natural enemy of “Internet addicts”.

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

To use the Screen Time feature, you need to have at least iOS 12 installed on your iPhone/iPad, so older models that can’t be updated to iOS 12 and above will not be able to use this feature. In addition, regarding the available terminals, among the iPhone devices, it must be the model after iPhone 5s; while the iPad must be the model after iPad mini2 and the iPod must be iPod touch (6th generation).

Turn on Screen Time feature to limit home devices

The steps are as follows:

Step 1: Turn on your 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 monitor, the added devices will appear at the top of the page, click on the name of the device you want to monitor, and the page will show the user’s detailed time allocation for each app. You can know the daily and weekly screen and device time usage, the number of times you pick up the device, the number of times you receive notifications and so on.

Setting the deactivation time of your iPhone

Back to the first page of Screen Time settings, there are five options: “Deactivation Time”, “App Limit”, “Limit Communication”, “Always Allow” and “Content and Privacy Access Limit”. Allow” and “Content and Privacy Access Restrictions”. You can disable an account from viewing the iPhone/iPad screen by enabling “Deactivation Time” and setting the start and end time. In addition, during the deactivation period, only allowed apps and phone features are available.

It’s important to note here that this stopping time setting applies to all devices that are signed into your iCloud account, so make sure you already know the number of devices you want to perform the deactivation on.

Limit the usage time of individual applications

In “App Limit”, you can set the daily usage time of individual apps as follows:

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

Step 2: Tick the applications you want to limit the time of use, click “Next” after you can set the time limit, set the completion of the click on the upper right corner of the “Add” can be.

Setting up always-allowed applications

In daily life, applications such as messaging and phone calls are necessary, you can add the necessary apps in “Always Allow”, and once added, these apps can still be used as usual even during “Deactivation Time”.

The steps are as follows:

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

Setting limits on content and privacy access

Restrictions on content and privacy are more detailed, for example, you can restrict your child from purchasing any apps, or limit the content they can access, such as prohibiting access to adult websites, disallowing multiplayer gaming, and so on.

The steps are as follows:

Click to enter the “Content and Privacy Access Restrictions” interface, after opening the button, all the content modules can be set up one by one to show, you can personalize the restrictions according to individual needs.

The above is a detailed tutorial on how to use Screen Time. Although the additional functions of iPhone are good, we remind you to back up the data in the device in time to prevent accidental data loss. Fortunately, if you accidentally delete the unbacked up data, you can also use the professional Apple device data recovery software – Renee iPhone Recovery to recover the deleted data.

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