It's located within the Settings app and it monitors the way you use your devices, presenting everything from how long you've spent on certain app categories and specific apps, to how many times you've picked up your iPhone in a given day or even hour.ĭata collected can be viewed in handy charts within the Screen Time menu and at the beginning of the week on a Monday morning, you'll get a report via a notification so you can see exactly what you've been doing that week, how it compared to the previous week and how much time you spent in certain apps. Screen Time is a core part of iOS and iPadOS and as such, it works with all apps without developers or individual apps needing to make any changes to benefit from it. pressing one of the volume buttons (up or down) every 3-4 seconds will reset the timer and keep the login screen lit. What is Apple's Family Sharing feature, how to set it up and what is shared? Once the lock screen goes black, pressing it will bring back the lock screen and reset the 5 or 10 second timer.Whether you've updated to the latest iOS software, or bought your kids their first iPhone in time for the school year to start, this is a great tool to get to grips with.
