How do we prevent turning off 'Screen Time Access' in Settings? {SOLVED}

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#144

This worked great for me! When I try to turn off Screen Time, the settings screen briefly flashes but becomes unresponsive, and the phone redirects me back to Opal then my Home Screen. I donā€™t have time to disable screen time.

I found the instructions a little confusing, so hereā€™s a step-by-step:

  1. Follow Opalā€™s official guide first: Set up the automation as described in ā€œHow to Lock Opalā€™s Screen Time Accessā€
  2. Create a second automation: Go to the Shortcuts app and tap Automation > + to add a new automation > App. Set this automation to run immediately when Settings is closed ā€œSettingsā€ is closed. For the action, choose ā€œGo to Home Screen.ā€

Thatā€™s it! Thanks Vincenzo.

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#145

I know thereā€™s already multiple topics on this issue, but the problem that Opal could be bypassed by restarting the phone and turning off screen time makes Opal unusable for me.

I love Opal and all its features but if you could just turn them off, it makes it useless. Can we focus on fixing this and not adding more features?

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#146

how would you set this up for macos bc you can access settings on your laptop as well

#147

Honestly, we need a fix for this. Iā€™ve paid for the app and it is completely useless if we can just unable it in the settings app.

Creating the shortcut doesnā€™t help if we are not using sessions (e.g. daily limits) - even if we create a 23h55 session, i should still be able to use my settings app!!

This should be Opalā€™s #1, #2 and #3 priority.

#148

In settings, under screen time, you can turn off ā€˜allow Opal to manage screen timeā€™ - which then turns off all current sessions.
Is there a workaround for this?

#149

@findles How do we prevent turning off 'Screen Time Access' in Settings? {SOLVED} - #91 by Sarah_K Please Refer to this

#150

Iā€™ve had an issue for a while where I keep disabling sessions button going into settings and disabling Opal from accessing Screen time.

I have already followed the instructions to prevent this as per this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi-5QjmT7mc

But the issue is this only carries out if face ID works. I have been able to successfully turn off Opals access to Screen time by just pointing the phone away from my face so FaceID doesnā€™t work. is there a way to not require FACE ID from Opal? I believe this wasnā€™t always the case

#151

It is not possible for Opal to disable its functions in settings screen time restrictions with Face ID, that is, I am in writing mode and the apps I want are blocked, but the settings are not blocked, what is wrong is that it gives the option to unlock the counter or task in difficult mode, only by accessing screen time restrictions, something that other applications do not allow to deactivate by Face ID, for this reason, I will cancel my subscription, until this is fixed

#152

Hello,

Im having the same issue, about 3 weeks ago everything was working find, I had defined a passcode to enable or disable Opal access to Screen Time. At some point Face ID got activated and I could bypass the code just with my Face.

I spoke with Apple support and the best they could offer me was to update to IOs 18.

Now the phone only asks me for my iphone code, called Apple again and they say this is normal due to the update and that Screen Time passcode will not be required from now on.

Are there any workarounds?

#153

I have the same issue. I have done everything right (shortcuts on) (screentime) (Opal) But by simply turning my phone off and on again it allows me to go into the settings app and simply turn off Opal (with just phone passcode) until about a minute once shortcuts starts working. Is there a way to fix this, maybe to force the phone to open an app for a minute ? Thanks