Help! Screen time limit for iPhone and Snapchat!!

[Cakecrumbs]

Hi all, hoping someone that has already managed to win this battle will come along.
Basically, I had set up the screen time limit on the actual iPhone for my teen daughter but it seems to work for everything bar the problematic app - Snapchat.
I then tried an actual screen time limit app (called Screen time) but she managed to get round this.
I am currently having to take her phone away every evening but wouks prefer not to have this battle.
I am looking for recommendations for apps that will limit screen time on Snapchat that teens aren't managing to get around please.
Please no comments on whether my method of parenting is correct or not, simply looking for app recommendations.
Thanks

It is easy OP, I haven't got my phone with my atm but you don't need to pay for an app.

support.apple.com/en-us/HT208982

I don't set limits for particular apps, just an overall one and then I allow some apps all the time.

Look at that link.

Hi, thanks for that but unfortunately that was my first port of call and it doesn't work for Snapchat, I think it is a common problem. Everything else gets limited bit Snapchat doesn't (even when set up to be limited) and that is my problem app

Have you limited snapchat specifically?

Yes

I've Googled it and it seems to be a common problem so need another app that teen can't get around (I don't pay for apps, just looking for free ones)

Are all devices running the current updates? The only time the iOS screen time didn't work properly for me was when DD's iPad hadn't been updated.

I don't use snapchat but DD does and it works with her limits/downtime no problem.

The thing is, teenagers will be able to get around most settings by googling or asking their friends.

I think it's better just to take the phone off them if they can't be trusted to use it within reasonable limits.

What age is your teen?

You cant get round Apple's screen time if on a family sharing account without the passcode.

You need to encourage her to learn to self limit, my 14 year old daughter has deleted Snapchat at the moment because she feels she needs a break from social media, still has Instagram, entirely her own decision, I'm proud of her maturity, can you have a conversation with her about this?

They are not all made the same MissSmiley.

Self limiting certainly doesn't work here at 14.

Some usage is fairly innocuous - like reading fiction on the library app - but you can't read books for eight hours a day and ignore homework/life either.

Hi, thanks all, she hasn't got around Apple's screen time as she doesn't have the pass code and it is working for everything else just not Snapchat. I would quite like it to be limited at other times of day when I am not necessarily with her too so taking her phone away will only solve the night time usage.
There is no way I could get her to delete Snapchat unfortunately!

@KitKatBox Really? A one second google of "get around apple screentime" suggests otherwise.

Depends on what other controls you have imposed Disinterested.

For instance DD can't download anything from the App Store without me sanctioning it on my phone.

It hasn't happened here!

It hasn't but children will absolutely find a way round everything. I work with them and none of them stick to the sanctions their parents put on their phones. Not a one.

🤷🏻‍♀️ Or maybe some just accept the deal .... on the basis that a smartphone isn’t essential to life and if you take the mickey you will get the ‘spare, emergency phone’ which is a very basic unsmart Nokia, because that’s what would happen here.

Yeah I think that is what we are maybe down to now, I have a very uncool basic phone on charge

I think that’s fair enough OP. I am fair, expect my rules to be respected. DD is aware that if she was able to self regulate there wouldn’t be any need for screen time.

If her homework is up to date, room isn’t a pigsty, music done, etc., etc., I have no problem with granting extra time. Without a limit nothing would get done (as proven).

My nieces and nephews aren’t the same at all - much more measured phone useage.

We pay for Ourpact - $10 per month - and worth every cent!!!
You can block all app or just specific ones.
You can put time restrictions on the phone - our daughter can;t use anything other than a few apps during lesson time - back on for all breaks! Also has a time to go off - and can set different time for weekdays - weekends, etc.
it prevents the password being changed if you want that, and can put restrictions on what can be searched on the net if you want that.
It's great!
Just be prepared for the battle when it first goes on the phone!!!

Hi. The following might help.
Turn screen time off on your daughters phone. Then log out of her iCloud account. Then on your phone turn off screen time for your daughters phone. Log out of your iCloud account.
Log back into both iCloud accounts.
Then on your phone set up screen time restrictions for your daughters phone. Do NOT put on “Share across devices” .
This should hopefully work. There seems to be a glitch if set up through child’s phone and sharing across devices.
This assumes you have added your daughter to Family Sharing account
Hope this works for you.

Just wondering whether this worked as having same issues with screentime not working with snapchat.

Hello my friend, I don't think you're taking this seriously enough. Your child clearly has a serious problem and it is up to you to sort it out, love. I once had this problem with my son Chuck and I found the only way to resolve it, was by taking his phone away, tieing him to a tree so he can watch me smash his phone in with a hammer and then burn it with my flame thrower. Best of luck. Glaydys XXX.

Ourpact app free version will lock down all apps from your phone. No need to pay for the upgraded version.

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