Hey Timothy, that’s not something you can do if your child has an Apple device. You can’t choose which apps are blocked. It’s something we’re working on adding at the moment though for Apple devices.

You can – at least on Android, as far as I know it’s the same on iPhones.
Open the “School” schedule and scroll down. There will be a long list of all the apps installed on the child’s phone. Select or deselect the ones you want (red means blocked, green means free to use).
DON’T FORGET TO SAVE THE SETTINGS .

Hi Oli, yep I got the email last week thanks. Its great to see that you guys listen to your customers and are humble enough to admit when you get it wrong and correct it, keep up the good work 🙂

Ok great, thanks for letting us know Katie 🙂

Nevermind I see it

How do we know which apps are blocked during the new schedules? I don’t see the list below the schedule info that allows you to select certain apps. With the previous school blocker, we could select them. This is hugely important to us because some of their apps need to be used in class.

Hey Johnny, yeah it wasn’t a good idea and we’ve now reversed that so that Free Play Mode is back in the app.

We’ve had an huge response from parents after we removed Free Play Mode from Screen Time. Even though we did this with the best intentions, which is always to help parents, we didn’t realise how popular this feature was.
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We’ve listened to what you’ve said and we’re going to bring back Free Play Mode!

For parents with Android devices you’ll see an update in the Google Play Store in the next couple of days. You just need to update the app on you (the parent’s) device, and Free Play Mode will come back.

Parents that use an Apple device, I’m afraid we can’t update until after the 28th December when Apple start accepting new app versions again.

We’ll be in touch as soon as we know exactly when that will be. In the meantime you’ll still be able to use Free Play Mode by logging in through a web browser.