Apple has admitted to a Display Time bug that has dad and mom upset.
In keeping with The Wall Road Journal, dad and mom have been complaining on Apple boards and Fb teams that Display Time settings aren’t “sticking,” which means youngsters have had limitless entry to units. Display Time settings seem to reset to default mode even when modifications have been made.
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Display Time, a function inside Apple’s cloud-based Household Sharing software, permits dad and mom to arrange display screen deadlines and content material and privateness restrictions throughout Apple units. In these Display Time settings, Downtime has been a useful gizmo that lets dad and mom outline what number of hours every day their youngsters can use their machine—both limiting their utilization or making the machine unusable. For busy dad and mom, it is a useful means to make sure youngsters do not spend an excessive amount of time on units and defend them from accessing inappropriate content material. Nevertheless it hasn’t been working.
Beforehand, Apple mentioned it mounted the bug with an iOS 16.6 replace, citing a problem with syncing throughout units. However the bug has persevered even with the iOS 17 beta. One father or mother informed WSJ that it took him three tries to alter his kid’s Downtime hours.
Apple issued an announcement to the Journal, acknowledging the continuing drawback, saying “We take these reviews very severely and we’ve been, and can proceed, making updates to enhance the state of affairs.” For now, annoyed dad and mom are left with third-party apps to watch units or altering the restriction settings on every particular person machine.