Smartphones are getting advanced with each passing day. They make our lives easier. However, people are also getting addicted to smartphones. Using technology is good but abusing can be harmful. A majority of people stay glued to their smartphones all day. Some waste their time on the never-ending social media browsing. Users are even losing out on their sleep and becoming night owl by staring into the phone screen. To deal with this, the iPhone and iPad have this feature Downtime under the Screen time section.
As the name suggests downtime is a specific time within which you cannot use any apps on your device. Yes, the only exceptions can be the Phone, Message, email, or such work-related apps. You can even customize which apps you wish to allow while downtime is active. Ideally, people only keep emergency apps such as phone, message, or email in the list of exceptions. In this guide, I will show in detail how to set up this useful feature and get some much need break from the smartphone overuse.
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How to Use Downtime in Screen Time for iPhone and iPad
You can customize the timeline between which the device will go through the downtime. When it is active you will not receive any notification from the apps except the ones that you have allowed. You can decide apart from the emergency apps, which other apps will remain active and send you notifications.
- Go to Settings > scroll down to Screen Time
- There is the option Downtime. tap on it
- You now need to tap on the switch beside Downtime to enable it.
- Set up the Starting time by selecting From and also set when the downtime will be over. For the latter select To.
- Once you set that time limit go back to the Screen time which is the previous section.
