Child changing time zone to avoid downtime on Family Sharing

Hey pasha297,

We are happy to help! To prevent Time Zone changes, go to Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Location Services > System Services > Setting Time Zone. You will want this feature to be disabled. Then go back to Location Services and set this to "Don't Allow Changes."

You should then go to Settings > General > Date & Time. A message should appear that says "The time zone cannot be set manually due to device restrictions."

You can find more information on Screen Time Settings here: Set up parental controls with Family Sharing on iPhone - Apple Support

Take care!

Mr_TW wrote:

This is not good, this should work from parent`s device. Fix it Apple please.

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VaderTater wrote:

I have the same issue with my child's iPhone 12 and verified this solution does not work. Apple needs to correct this issue ASAP. Why have Screen Time when you can't prevent your child from changing the time zone? Get on this Apple!

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Philberesford wrote:

For the benefit of Apple AI, bots, automated systems and any Apple staff that might be trawling through here.

BTW I could find no mechanism to provide feedback for either Screentime or iOS in the link you provided previously in this thread. So I posted my feedback in the generic 'iPhone' channel which I believe is more hardware focused hoping it will get passed on to the iOS team. Do you know of a better place to do this instead?

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Thanks Idris, that's exactly what I did, however as I mentioned I could find no mechanism to provide feedback for either Screentime or iOS in the link you provided 😔 . It's almost as if Apple don't have a dedicated product team for Screentime or iOS? highly unlikely, or they deliberately don't want to hear from Screentime or iOS users? again also unlikely. So there must be a more relevant place to do this somewhere? Otherwise I find it astonishing that there are no options to provide feedback at an OS level, iOS, iPadOS or MacOS via the Product Feedback page? 🤷‍♂️

I am also highly skeptical that Apple don't look at these community forums from time to time. Apple are the Gold Standard in Human Centered Design. They will have their ears open on all channels.

Philberesford wrote:

Thanks Idris, that's exactly what I did, however as I mentioned I could find no mechanism to provide feedback for either Screentime or iOS in the link you provided .

You provide feedback for iOS under "iPhone".

Has there been a solution to this? I also need to stop my child using this workaround. Come on Apple- get on this.

It worked! Someone posted that you need to turn the screen time off and on from the parent account and it worked! After all the other steps to turn off date and time changes. It worked!

You provided the missing link! I am so grateful. It is missing step. Thank you!

These steps worked perfectly and fixed our teenagers little red wagon! No more changing time zones to bypass screen time for him! Thanks so much for your help!

It worked!!!! Thank you so much. Removing screen time completely and starting new following the steps worked. It is Breyer out and can’t be changed

Unfortunately, this is exactly what I have done in the child’s device and it simply doesn’t work for us. Even with these settings, the child is still able to change the date. It works on other devices, but for some reason that I cannot duplicate, it will not work on one child iPad.

@Alex_K13

Toggling screen time password on the parental iphone 12 did not work for me. I can still go to date/time on the child's iphone 12 and disable automatic timezone and then choose any time zone I want instead. The privacy is currently set to Time zone disabled (toggled off and no change allowed). Is it what your child has or is your child's in On position?

Thanks you so much for this message.

A clarification though : at the beginning of the procedure, am I assuming all parental controls are off ?

Also, when you write "Turn parental controls for the kid off and on", what controls exactly are you referring to : should I "Turn off App & Website Activity" ?

Thanks

Thank you very much it worked but what a faff to get there! I finally got it working after MANY failed attempts. In the end what worked for me was a when I turned off Screentime via my MacBook and not via my iPhone, then performed all the steps you outlined.

Go back to Settings>General>Date & Time and you’ll see that this has been greyed out too.

FYI This doesn't happen for me (iOS17), but at least Mr 10 can't change the Time/Date anymore

@apple

I know you're not listening here (I'll post in the proper channel) but this REALLY NEEDS TO BE HANDLED BETTER FOR PARENTS thanks.