Employ Screen Time on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect

With Screen Time, you can access real-time reports showing how much fourth dimension y'all spend on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. You can also set limits for what you lot desire to manage.

iPhone showing the daily average screen time, and iPad showing a racing game.

Screen Time lets you know how much time you and your kids spend on apps, websites, and more. This way, you can make more informed decisions nigh how y'all use your devices, and set up limits if you'd like to. Learn how to utilise parental controls to manage a child'southward device.

Plough on Screen Fourth dimension

  1. Go to Settings > Screen Time.
  2. Tap Plow On Screen Time.
  3. Tap Go along.
  4. Select This is My [device] or This is My Kid's [device].

After you turn on Screen Time, you lot'll run across a written report showing how you utilize your device, apps, and websites. If information technology's your child's device, you lot tin prepare Screen Time and create settings on their device or you can use Family Sharing to configure your child'south device from your device. After you set up up your kid's device, y'all can as well use Family Sharing to see reports and adjust settings from your device.

With Screen Fourth dimension, you lot tin as well create a dedicated passcode to secure settings, and so merely you can extend time or make changes. Make sure to choose a passcode that's dissimilar from the passcode that you use to unlock your device. To change or plough off the passcode on your child'southward device, become to Settings > Screen Time and tap your kid's name. And then tap Change Screen Time Passcode or Turn Off Screen Fourth dimension Passcode, and authenticate the change with Face ID, Bear upon ID, or your device passcode.

If yous forgot your Screen Time passcode, update your device to the latest iOS or iPadOS, and so reset your passcode.

Set a Screen Time passcode

Yous tin can set up a passcode so that only you can modify Screen Fourth dimension settings and permit more than time when app limits expire. Use this feature to set content and privacy limitations for your child's device. The steps to set upwardly a Screen Time passcode depend on whether you lot're using Family unit Sharing.

If you're using Family Sharing to manage a child business relationship

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Scroll downward and choose your child'south name under Family.
  3. Tap Turn on Screen Fourth dimension, then tap Continue.
  4. Fix Downtime, App Limits, and Content & Privacy with the limitations that you want for your child, or tap Non Now.
  5. Tap Use Screen Time Passcode, then enter a passcode when prompted. Re-enter the passcode to ostend.
  6. Enter your Apple ID and password. This tin be used to reset your Screen Time passcode if you forget it.

If you lot're not using Family Sharing to manage a kid account

  1. Make sure that you're on the device used by the kid.
  2. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  3. Tap Turn on Screen Time, then tap Proceed.
  4. Tap This is My Child'southward [device].
  5. Gear up upwards Downtime, App Limits, and Content & Privacy with the limitations that you want for your child, or tap Not At present.
  6. Tap Use Screen Time Passcode, then enter a passcode when prompted. Re-enter the passcode to confirm.
  7. Enter your Apple ID and countersign. This can be used to reset your Screen Time passcode if you forget information technology.

iPhone showing daily average screen time and which apps are used the most.

See your report and set limits

Screen Time gives you a report showing how your device is used, apps y'all've opened, and websites yous've visited. To see the report, go to Settings > Screen Time and tap Run into All Activity nether the graph. From in that location, you can come across your usage, set limits for your almost used apps, and see how many times a device was picked upwards or received a notification.

If you turned on Share Across Devices, you can view overall usage across devices that are signed in with your Apple tree ID and password.

Manage Screen Time settings

Go to Settings > Screen Time. Then tap See All Activity, select a category in the listing beneath and set limits. You tin can manage these settings with Screen Time:

Downtime

Downtime

When you schedule downtime in Settings, only phone calls and apps that you lot choose to allow are bachelor. Downtime applies to all of your Screen Time-enabled devices, and you get a reminder five minutes earlier it starts. If y'all set a Screen Fourth dimension passcode, Downtime includes an additional setting: Block At Downtime. When you choose this setting and you click Inquire For More than Time when Reanimation starts, entering the passcode allows yous to approve the app for 15 minutes, an hour, or all day. Child accounts tin click I More Minute one time, or click Ask For More Time to send their request to the parent business relationship for approving.

App Limits

app limits

You lot can ready daily limits for app categories with App Limits. For case, you might want to meet productivity apps while y'all're at work, but not social networking or games. App Limits refresh every twenty-four hours at midnight, and y'all can delete them any fourth dimension.

Advice Limits

communication limits

Control who your children can communicate with throughout the 24-hour interval and during downtime. These limits utilize to Phone, FaceTime, Messages, and iCloud contacts. This is as well where you can make up one's mind and manage which contacts are available on an Apple Watch paired through Family unit Setup. Advice to known emergency numbers identified by your iPhone or Apple Watch cellular carrier is always allowed. You need to take your iCloud contacts enabled to use this feature.

E'er Allowed

always allowed

You might desire to access certain apps, even if it'southward downtime or if yous set the All Apps & Categories app limit. Phone, Messages, FaceTime, and Maps are always allowed by default, but you tin remove them if you want.

Content & Privacy Restrictions

content and privacy

You decide the type of content that appears on your device. Cake inappropriate content, purchases, and downloads, and set your privacy settings with Content & Privacy Restrictions.

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