Question

You have screen time, this screen time makes it so every day, at precisely 11:59 PM, all of your apps unlock, there is one app you were banned from, and anyone who has screen time knows you have a option to press a button that will allow you, one minute that can be used at anytime for one app. Every day at 12:00 AM you get another one minute you can use as you will, and the one you had yesterday, used or not, is gone. What is the best way to use these precious minutes? Do you spread them throughout the day? Or do you use them all in the spam of five minutes? Do you do nothing and try to figure out the passcode? Do you use your parents laptop when available? Careful to delete all evidence? Or just do what your parents tell you to do?

Ya so basically my parents found out that I was talking to ppl online and they sorta made it so all social apps, including Chess.com are locked. (Social apps meaning Roblox, tho I got banned from that before Chess for foolish reasons in my opinion, and Chess.com) and even though I am pretty responsible I have like fifteen million restrictions some of which do not make any sense. (Who locks Apple Music?) And I kinda don’t know what to do lol, I mean, I love OTF and the Chess community, but should I risk it? Or should I follow my parents rules that are quite strict and not talk to people online at all ever no matter what? Anyways, I’m just looking for advice, I may or may not take it but I welcome opinions on what to do in this situation!

I have screen time but not that 1 min rule😔 sounds nice tho

ur parents are prob just worried bcs of all the news about kids talking online and getting kidnapped and shi. maybe just find out how to be safe online, talk to them about why u like otf, find out whats making them worried and then try to relieve that worry. maybe tell them some actions u promise to do to stay safe online like not talking in private to strangers or not revealing ur real name or ur face. hope this helps :3

One method I very much don’t recommend (but I am recommending at the same time) is to guess the passcode.

I’m guessing from this description this is an iPhone screen time limit. I was stuck with this years ago, and I know you get 6 tried before it requires you to wait 1 minute, then the wait duration adds up as you try again.

What I tried is birthdays, anniversaries, etc, and I got it twice, but then was caught literally days after.

My advice? You can guess the passcode and have freedom (temporarily), but you’ll probably just get punished and the passcode will be changed again.

Ty

Use it to answer your chess.com DMs.

If u have ChatGPT and your safari/google is blocked, you can ask it to give you a link to some other searching site, like DuckDuckGo, and bam, you can go to chess.com and all good


Issue is, they might see your screen time

yeah that's how they found out I got their password aft like 3 months of hiding😭😭