Warden
Turn off Screen Time completely
Open Settings, tap Screen Time, tap Manage Screen Time, then tap Turn Off App & Website Activity. Your Screen Time report needs App & Website Activity, so it stops filling in as well.
To turn it back on, return to the same screen and tap Turn On App & Website Activity.
Turn off only your schedule
If the problem is the hours, not the feature, open Settings, tap Screen Time, tap Screen Time Schedule, then turn off Schedule. Your Time Allowances and your report stay as they are.
Remove one Time Allowance
Open Settings, tap Screen Time, tap Time Allowances, then tap Manage Categories. Select the category, such as Social Media or Games, then tap the delete button, which includes the category's name. The other categories keep their allowances.
Keep one app open instead
If a single app keeps getting blocked when you need it, add it to Always Allowed rather than turning anything off. Open Settings, tap Screen Time, tap Always Allowed, then tap Add Apps. Apps on that list stay available through every schedule and allowance.
If it asks for a passcode
- A Screen Time passcode protects these settings. Enter it to make changes.
- If you forgot it, you can reset it with the Apple Account used for Screen Time Passcode Recovery.
- If a parent manages Screen Time for you through Family Sharing, the settings are controlled from their device, and turning them off is their decision.
Example: the evening schedule that ate the morning
A schedule set for 10 PM to 7 AM also blocks a podcast app on the early train, and after a week of reaching for the settings the plan is to turn Screen Time off altogether.
Instead, the window moves to end at 6 AM and the podcast app goes on Always Allowed. The evening block keeps working and the morning complaint is gone, with one setting changed rather than all of them.
Third-party app blockers have their own switch
Apps such as Warden use Apple's Screen Time permission but keep their own rules, so turning off Apple's settings does not change them. In Warden you pause or edit a rule inside the app. A rule in Lockdown stays on until it ends, with emergency access still available.
