How to Remove or Turn Off "Ignore Limit" in Screen Time

On iOS 16 to 26, you remove "Ignore Limit" by setting a Screen Time passcode and turning on Block at End of Limit for each App Limit, then letting someone else hold the code. On iOS 27, App Limits became Time Allowances and that switch is no longer documented, so the fix is a passcode you don't know. Check your version in Settings → General → About.

Removing the button is half the job. The other half is making sure the person at the limit screen (you, at 11pm) can't get past the next one.

Quick answer

• iOS 16 to 26: passcode → App Limits → Block at End of Limit.
• iOS 27: put the app in a Time Allowance, lock settings with a passcode.
• Either way: someone else types the code and handles recovery.
• Then: close the browser and reinstall loopholes.

What do the limit screen options mean?

On iOS 16 to 26, without a passcode, the limit screen offers:

• One More Minute: 60 seconds to finish what you're doing.
• Remind Me in 15 Minutes: back in, with the screen returning in 15 minutes.
• Ignore Limit for Today: the limit is off until midnight.

With a passcode and Block at End of Limit, you get Ask For More Time instead, offering One More Minute (once) and Enter Screen Time Passcode.

On iOS 27, Apple doesn't document the screen for self-set limits. Early hands-on reports say an Ignore Limit option is still offered when an allowance runs out, and that with a passcode set, extending asks for it, then offers 15 minutes, an hour or all day. Whether One More Minute survives isn't confirmed.

How do I remove Ignore Limit on iOS 16 to 26?

1. Set a Screen Time passcode

1. Settings → Screen Time → Lock Screen Time Settings ("Use Screen Time Passcode" on iOS 16).
2. Enter a 4-digit code that's different from your phone passcode.
3. iOS asks for an Apple ID for recovery. Read step 3 before you choose.

2. Turn on Block at End of Limit

Settings → Screen Time → App Limits, tap each limit, switch on Block at End of Limit. "Ignore Limit" becomes "Ask For More Time," and going further needs the passcode.

3. Make sure you don't know the code

The step most guides skip, and the whole point. If you set the code yourself, you've moved the button one step away: at 11pm you'll type four digits instead of tapping once.

• Ask a partner, friend or housemate to type it without showing you.
• Use their Apple ID for recovery, or Family Sharing with them as organiser. Otherwise you can reset it with your own Apple ID.
• Agree on rules for when they'll unlock it (never after 10pm, say).

4. Close the back doors

• Browser: add the site under Content & Privacy Restrictions → App Store, Media, Web & Games → Web Content → Limit Adult Websites → Never Allow (on iOS 16 to 18.0 the first menu is Content Restrictions or Store, Web, Siri & Game Center Content).
• Delete and reinstall: iTunes & App Store Purchases → Deleting Apps → Don't Allow.
• Time zone tricks: keep Date & Time → Set Automatically on.

The full list: Screen Time loopholes.

How do I remove Ignore Limit on iOS 27?

Apple's iOS 27 guide drops App Limits and Block at End of Limit, but documents a passcode you must enter "before changing Screen Time settings you selected for yourself." Same job, new menus:

1. Put the app under a Time Allowance. Settings → Screen Time → Time Allowances, set the totals, and use Manage Categories to check the app's category. A category containing only that app is the closest thing to an App Limit.
2. Take it out of Always Allowed.
3. Set a passcode someone else types: Manage Screen Time → Lock Screen Time Settings. iOS 27 then offers Screen Time Passcode Recovery with your Apple Account, which lets you reset it yourself. Let the code holder handle recovery, or skip it.
4. Close the back doors. An allowance covers an app's website only if the app declares it. Keep the clock automatic, and turn on Share Across Devices so your iPad and Mac (also on version 27) follow the same rules.

Why isn't removing Ignore Limit enough?

It depends on another person. You need someone around, willing and firm, and you have to be comfortable asking them to unlock your own phone when you genuinely need an app.

A daily total is the wrong shape. With a hard block, a 30-minute Instagram limit burnt on quick checks by lunch locks you out of friends' messages all afternoon. So people raise the limit, or ask for the code every day, until the system collapses. More in why daily Screen Time limits don't work.

Can limits stick without handing over the passcode?

Yes, with a tool built for self-control rather than parental control. Detox swaps each weak spot:

• A session limit instead of a daily total. Quick checks are fine all day; scroll an app continuously past your limit and it's blocked for a while.
• Strict mode instead of someone else's passcode. While a block is active you can't edit or delete it, and Detox can stop you deleting the app.
• One emergency unblock a day, for real emergencies, not for one more minute.

It's paid, with a free trial. Side by side: the Apple Screen Time alternative.

The bottom line

On iOS 16 to 26: passcode, Block at End of Limit, and someone else knows the code. On iOS 27: a Time Allowance plus a passcode someone else holds. That turns Screen Time from a suggestion into a lock. If you'd rather not depend on another person, a strict, session-based blocker is the sturdier fix.