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dn_cs
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Wrong “screen time” time.

Yesterday I used my phone for about 2h30min. I had my phone turned off from 12am-7am, and I turned it back on when I woke up, around 7.15am. However, checking my screen time, I realized that it figures as if I had been on my phone FOR 11HOURS. You can clearly see that my hours of use of the apps do NOT sum 11h. What are the de grey bars and why do they add 9 HOURS to my screen time? I have never seen this before (the grey bars I have, but they never summed up that much). And why do they appear from 0-7 if it was off?


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Posted on Oct 16, 2026 5:22 PM

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SravanKrA
User level: Level 10 (454,138 points)

Oct 17, 2026 12:27 AM in response to dn_cs

Refer to the list of Categories listed below and pic 1 where Category Serial No. 1 (Social), 7 (Reading), and 12 (Others) are shown Blue, Aqua, and Orange

In this case (Pic 1), all other categories serial nos. 2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10 and 11 are Grey


Pic 1




Look at the pic 2 below a cut-out view of a screen from an earlier old post


Pic 2


Total Screen Time is a+b+c



*** There are 12 board level Categories in Screen Time

  1. Social Networking: FaceBook, Hangout, Instagram
  2. Games: Scrabble, PUBG, Sudoku
  3. Entertainment: TV, Music, YouTube, Netflix
  4. Creativity: Photos, Camera, Google Photos
  5. Productivity: Shortcuts, Mailk
  6. Education: SkyView, Learn Python
  7. Information & Reading: Wikipedia, Magzter, Weather, Kindle, NDTV
  8. Health & Fitness: Journal, Tata 1mg, HeartRate Pro, Activity
  9. Utilities: App Store, Measure, Truecaller, Calculator
  10. Shopping and Food: Amazon, BigBasket, Shell Asia
  11. Travel: Apple Maps, Google Maps, FlightAware, Booking.com, Uber
  12. Others: Pinterest, iTunes Store, Kia Connect


The graph displays the top 3 (Time used by the user) category legends on the X-axis. Anything other than these legend categories is a Grey bar in the graph



Pic 3



For example:

If the user has used Games, Entertainment & Others category apps for the maximum time during a period then the graph will show these three categories in the X axis as legends and the remaining categories will be shown in Grey Colour.


The GIF below will illustrate the graph from 3 iOS devices

iPhone 6 iOS 12.4.5

iPhone SE iOS 13.3.1

iPad Pro 9.7" Wifi+Cellular iOS 13.3.1


GIF 1




Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256377525