Warden
Open your Screen Time report
Open Settings, tap Screen Time, then tap Daily Average. Tap Week for a summary of the whole week, or Day for a single day. Swipe left or right on the summary to go back through earlier days and weeks.
For a quicker look, add the Screen Time widget to your Home Screen. Your iPhone also sends a Screen Time Weekly Report notification; tap it to open the same summary, or find it later in Notification Center.
What the report shows
- Your total time on the device for the day or the week.
- Your most used apps, so you can see which one takes the most time.
- Pickups: how many times you picked up your iPhone and your other devices.
- Notifications: how many you received. Scroll down past the app list to find both.
Include your iPad and Mac
To see one combined report, open Settings, tap Screen Time, tap Manage Screen Time, then turn on Share Across Devices. Your schedules, time allowances and usage data are then shared across the iPhone, iPad and Mac signed in to the same Apple Account.
Apple notes that Share Across Devices needs iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, visionOS 27 or later on all your Apple devices. If you leave it off, each device keeps its own report and its own settings.
If your report is empty
- Screen Time records nothing until App & Website Activity is on. Open Settings, tap Screen Time, tap Manage Screen Time, then tap Turn On App & Website Activity.
- A report fills in from the day you turn it on. It cannot show time from before then.
- Check your version in Settings, General, About. On iOS 26 and earlier the report sits under See All App & Website Activity instead of Daily Average.
Read it for one decision
A weekly total is easy to feel bad about and hard to act on. Look instead for the single app at the top of the list, and for the time of day when your pickups bunch together. Those two answers tell you what to limit and when.
Then check again a week later, on the same view, so you compare like with like.
Example: the commute that showed up twice
The weekly view says four hours a day, which feels like too much but explains nothing. The Day view for a Tuesday shows two short spikes in pickups, around 8 AM and 6 PM, and the same video app at the top of the list both times.
So the first rule is small: an allowance for that one app, and nothing else changed. The next Tuesday's report is the test of whether it worked.
Turning the report into limits
Warden reads the Screen Time patterns your iPhone shares with it and suggests which apps to limit, how long to allow and when to block. You review each suggestion before it becomes a rule, and you can change it later.
