hey guys it's Jeff and today we are actually going to be taking a look at a workaround for
one of the more important screen time features in the new iOS 12 update so let's go ahead and
hop on the iPhone here and let's just talk about what's going on so if we go into settings and
then on to screen time a lot of parents will be using this feature to basically restrict access
to their child's phone so if we go and set it up here this is like the first menu that you
get basically explaining all the new features and if you set it up as your child's phone this
will allow you to manage your child's use via screen time so if we just go and skip all of
that go ahead and click continue and we enter our passcode this will allow us to control our
child's phone our proverbial child's phone so one of the new features within screen time is
downtime and basically this is scheduled time away from the phone so if your child has a bedtime that
they need to abide by maybe it's 10:00 p.m. and they need to be sleeping until 7:00 a.m. then
you can set down time from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. so essentially the phone will
be blocked through that throughout that time so let's go ahead and show you an example of how
you can get around this or how your child could get around this so let's go to 10:00 a.m. let's
go to 9 let's go ahead and set it to 906 so let's go to 7:00 p.m. and yeah we just set our downtime
if we go open up an app it will work and we have 5 minutes remaining until downtime I'm not sure I
think that's just the standard 5 minute countdown but obviously we have much less time so if we go
into the app store it works go into notes it works you know everything is working right now as normal
as a normal phone would so let's go ahead and wait just another couple of seconds so we just passed
the 906 mark and everything has now shut off so basically we have reached our time at limit we
can ask for more time but your child will not have the screen time passcode that you set so
obviously they couldn't get around it that way but one of the things that they can do is just
change the time so if you go into settings and then you go on to general and then on to date
and time you can take off it's set automatically and you can actually change this time to before
the period so of which the screen time started obviously they need to know that but I'm pretty
sure that they would pick them up on that pretty quickly so we can go ahead change the time we have
to actually change it past so let's go ahead it passed so if we go 8:00 p.m. yeah I think we set
it to 7:00 p.m. so we go ahead set it past there everything's unlocked they can go ahead and use
whatever apps they want to quite freely all you have to do is change the time now this is a very
simple workaround around the downtime feature I'm sure Apple has thought about this maybe
some people have complained to them I have seen this complaint via reddit forums and everything
like that so hopefully this is fixed I know if you go into the Settings app and then go into
restrictions there's a passcode there maybe the passcode could be implemented into the
date and time menu who knows but right now as of now this is a workaround a pretty easy one
around the downtime feature within screen time so guys that was just sort of like an informational
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