{"id":2045,"date":"2023-03-08T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2023-03-08T08:00:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T08:00:48","slug":"how-to-include-safari-in-ios-screen-time-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=2045","title":{"rendered":"How to include Safari in iOS Screen Time limits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Safari is hard to limit as part of normal Screen Time app limits, as it doesn\u2019t appear in the lists of apps to select. Presumably a deliberate decision on Apple&#8217;s part. This means that if you have, for example, a 2 hour limit for your child, you can&#8217;t include Safari in that limit. You can limit the individual websites that can be accessed, but not Safari itself &#8211; but this is, frankly, pants. However I found a way to include Safari as part of the total 2 hour limit, and I note that I didn&#8217;t find an explanation of this anywhere else on the web (that actually worked) so I&#8217;m documenting it here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the &#8220;daily usage&#8221; section of Screen Time, find Safari (assuming it has been used in the past day) and click on it, then &#8220;Add Limit\u2026&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Set a limit &#8211; e.g. 2 hours &#8211; and back out.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to the top-level &#8220;App Limits&#8221; page, and you\u2019ll see a new group containing just Safari that has been created.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add all the other apps we want to limit into that group (games, social, entertainment etc. as per your whims).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you already have another group with a limit (the one you were trying and failing to add Safari to originally) then be sure to delete that in favour of your new one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Now we have Safari included as an app in that total limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safari is hard to limit as part of normal Screen Time app limits, as it doesn\u2019t appear in the lists of apps to select. Presumably a deliberate decision on Apple&#8217;s part. This means that if you have, for example, a 2 hour limit for your child, you can&#8217;t include Safari in that limit. You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,41,44,43],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-apple","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}