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+Document: WR-014 P. Webb
+ 2026.01.04
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+ Workarounds Apple's ScreenTime Workarounds
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+ Teenagers think ScreenTime isn’t for them and **will** figure out a
+ way around them. They forget that we millennials used the internet
+ decades before they were even a thought. Anyway.
+
+ 📸[Do I look like a bitch?][IMG1]
+
+ A popular method is to change the date and time. This is particularly
+ stressing when your teen has an iPhone and a MacBook.
+
+ From your teen’s MacBook, head to System Settings → General → Date &
+ Time. Ensure "Set time and date automatically" is checked. For us, it
+ was not, the date was set several weeks back and the time was totally
+ off. Restoring the time and date will also fix an issue in Screen
+ Time where you might see a message stating that your teen’s computer
+ cannot be seen or whatever.
+
+ Now you'll want to head to Users & Groups. From there, you can see if
+ they are an `Admin`[1]. **We don’t want that.** Create a new `Admin`
+ account for you, log out of your teen’s account, log into your’s, go
+ to the same place in settings, and change their account to
+ `Standard`. You also want to uncheck "Allow this user to administer
+ this computer."
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+ As for iOS, go into your Settings → Family → Teen’s Name → Screen
+ Time → App Limits. You probably have a bunch of limits in here
+ already but you should add the Shortcuts app. For whatever reason,
+ there’s a way to circumvent limits with certain shortcuts that can be
+ easily downloaded from the internet. If your teen is an active user
+ of Shortcuts, they’ll just have to suffer until they move out.
+
+References
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+ [1] <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256108570>
+ [IMG1] <https://cdn.webb.page/blog/2026/marsellus-wallace.gif>