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How to Use Screen Time on iPhone or iPad
Hey everyone today. I wanted to show you this screen time option that was released with iOS 12, that shows you what you've been doing on your phone. This is very useful for parents, but it is also useful to see what you've been doing on your phone. If you want to limit the time that you use different apps or you use your phone for different things, it shows you how many times you picked up your phone, how many times you spend on individual apps and I'll just give you a quick overview and then at the end of the video, I'll show you how to reset it. To currently lease a little bit complicated, how you would reset this. If you didn't want to see all these options that you could also turn it off. So first let me show you how to access it. If you go to your settings and if you come down here, you should see this screen time option.
So if you click screen time, this is how you access the first page of screen time. Another way I like to get to it. Is if you slide left here, you could actually press edit on your widgets. If you scroll all the way down on your witches, press edit and screen time is a widget. So you basically let me just go ahead and press minus to remove it and if I come down here and look for screen time here, I could go ahead and press the plus sign and I could go ahead and add it to the widget here. So now it's on the bottom. I'm going to press done so every time I want to get to it, I just go to the left of the screen here, press screen time. And he launches it.
That way, I don't have to launch it through the general setting. So here on the very top, you have your overall screen time. So how much you've spent on your phone today? So if I click that, you will break it down for me for today. So if I go down, I could either see it by different apps that are used or just general category.
So I just show apps or websites or general categories that will switch off. Between the two and I could press more to see all the things that I've used and on each one for messages. For example, if I click it, it shows me specifically all about that, and on the very bottom, I could add a limit. So by adding a limit, I could tell my phone, Hey, I only want to use this for 30 minutes a day and I could set that limit for myself.
So let me go back to today. Again, this is true for all the different apps that you have. So on Instagram, for example, I could add a limit. For Safari, I could add a limit and all those have individual settings. So that's your two-day activity. I'm going to slide all the way down. It also shows you pickups.
So eight times per hour, I've picked up my phone today and the notifications that I have been underneath that and on the very top, you have last seven days by click that it shows me the last seven days of actually reset this recently. So it's really only showing me today because I reset it before recording this video.
Let me go back to the home screen. One more time. So underneath the time, right on top, you'll have some options. Downtime, app limits always allowed, and content on privacy. So downtime, it means if you click that, you could turn that on until it, Hey, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM. I don't want to. Do anything with my phone.
So don't show me anything. And that will kind of set a downtime reminder for that and then under app limits, if I click that, I could add limits to all the different apps. Now I showed you how to do that on the previous page, but you could do this by categories. So for example, on social media, I could add a limit.
That way, Instagram, Snapchat, things like that. I could say, Hey, for one hour, a day, that's all I could do that. So that's how you would set that limit and you would also delete that here if you want it to. So I'm going to. Just jump back in here on the day. There's always aloud, always allowed means all these apps, messages, FaceTime, and maps are always allowed and you could add other apps that are always allowed Demi's even during downtime, these will be allowed. So if you don't want Snapchat to have any downtime, for example, if you said downtime, you could go ahead and add that here. All you would have to do is go to the app and then press the plus sign. So let me go all the way down to Snapchat, press plus, and now that app is always allowed. So that's the always allowed section and continent privacy restriction. You could go ahead and turn that on right on top and this has a lot of different options. So I recommend you look through it and set up some content and privacy. If you're using this as a parent, this is really a good page to explore.
So those are the four things and then underneath that use screen time passcode. So you could just set this. So this will require a screen time to view and you could also set it to increase the time limit when the time limit expires. You will have to set a screen time passcode over here to make sure you could increase that limit.
Then you have shared across devices. If you want to do that, you have set up screen time for family underneath and underneath. All of that. You should have turn off-screen time. So this would just turn it off. You won't record. So if I turn it off, it's going to turn off this whole app on my phone, but.
Underneath that on some devices I've noticed there is reset data. Mine does not have that. So if you want to reset your data and you don't have that, all you would have to do is press turn off. Screen time, press it again and then he will turn it off in a second, and now if I click it back on, it's going to give me the intro pages.
I'm going to say this my iPhone, and it's going to turn it back on, but he resets all your data. So this is what I did before recording this video a few hours ago, but this is a way to research your data. If you don't have that option on the very bottom, just turn off-screen time, turn it back on and he will reset everything.
So now if I go here, you basically don't have any more data. Seven days or today everything has been reset. I hope you found this useful, and I hope you could use this as a parent to monitor your kids' activity or for yourself, just to make sure you don't overuse your phone during the day. Please give this video a thumbs up and subscribe for easy to follow videos, just like this one and I'll see you next time. Thanks for watching.