Playtime Shield is an app that helps parents manage their children’s use of shared iPhones and iPads by controlling app access and screen time. While it can work on remote devices, it is designed more specifically for local shared devices.

Parents or guardians select the applications they wish to disable and activate the cooresponding profile.

Playtime Shield uses Apple's Screen Time API to lock and unlock your devices. As such, there are some limitations, for example, the phone application cannot be locked out and other applications need to be locked out individually.

Installing the application and accepting the permissions requests is all that is required for initial setup. Beyond that customize the default profile for more custom settings.

From the home screen, tap the "Add a Profile" button. Rembember to give the profile a name, so that you can activate the profile using your voice with Siri

From the home screen, tap the "Edit" button of profile you wish to edit. From there you can edit the profile name, applications, and screen time limits.

Easily create a profile in the app, choose apps to allow or block, and set time limits as needed for each child.

Yes, Playtime Shield allows you to create multiple profiles, each with customized settings suitable for each child.

Absolutely, we prioritize your family’s privacy and security. The app does not collect personal data from users.

You can use voice commands to switch between profiles. For example, saying “Activate Playtime Shield” can activate a specific profile.

'Activate/Start Playtime Shield for <Profile Name>' will start the shield for whichever playtime user you specified. 'Open Playtime Shield' will open the app so you can edit profiles or manually start a playtime shield for the whichever profile you want. 'Deactivate Playtime Shield' will open the app so you can authenticate and cancel the playtime shield. 'Renew Playtime Shield' will open the app so you can authenticate and renew the app timers giving more time to play.

Unfortunately Siri has a very limited speech to text engine. You can try to re-record your profile name in Siri's voice recognition settings within iOS, but it is often easier to use a nickname or a different name that is easier for Siri to understand.

We offer in-app purchases like Multiple Profiles, Multiple Profiles Shared, Timed Lists, and Timed Lists Shared for enhanced control.

Yes, our 'Shared' options allow you to share features like Multiple Profiles and Timed Lists with your entire Apple Family Group.

With the Multiple Profiles in-app purchase, you can create an unlimited number of profiles. While there is no specific limit, some de¡¡vices may experience degraded performance when working with more than 10 profiles.

Playtime Shield is compatible with most iPhones and iPads running the latest iOS versions.

For support, please contact us through the app or visit our website's support section.

Yes, with the Timed Lists feature, you can set specific time limits for app usage on a per-app or app-category basis.

Yes, updates are free. We update the app for performance improvements and new features. Feel free to send us suggestions of what we can do to improve or features you wish to see added.

You can manage or cancel your subscriptions and in-app purchases through your Apple ID account settings.