The Screen Time App Picker keeps crashing

🪲 Unfortunately this is a notorious iOS bug. 🪲

The Screen Time picker is the bane of our existence with its constant crashes.

How to work around App Picker crashes

Instead of tapping through the list, which commonly causes the picker to crash, we instead recommend searching for it via the search box at the top.


If the picker still continues to crash:

  1. Type the app name somewhere on your phone. For example: "Safari".
  2. Highlight it → Copy
  3. Paste it directly into the picker search box so it immediately appears in the list for selection.

Alternatively, restart your iPhone, then update to the latest version of iOS 18 in case this particular bug has been improved. Perhaps a combination of the above might also do the trick.


Keep in mind: if you've selected some apps and the picker crashes, you can still tap Save to save your changes up until the crash occurred.

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