[millstone]

If you honestly hope to get onto the right people's radar, I encourage you to literally file a Radar! https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/

As for "huge audience" - I mean, if so, wouldn't it have been noticed years ago? The feature is buried three dialogs deep and doesn't work well; Apple should probably just remove it.

[cstigler]

I obviously don't have the actual stats, but I think this is widely used by parents (of the parents I know, usage of the various Screen Time restrictions seems standard, which makes sense to me).

Why hasn't it been noticed? The user isn't the customer. Parents enable the feature, but I doubt they actually use the iPad with filters on and look at what it's blocking. One of the first replies to my tweet was a mom who had been asked by their child yesterday why they'd blocked the word "teen"[1] - and of course they didn't know!

And great idea on filing a Radar as well! (I already backchanneled this to a couple friends who work at Apple, so hopefully it just gets duped to their reports.)

[1] https://twitter.com/drivingmzstacey/status/12298581552380231...

[lostlogin]

Any blocking can lead to confusing and non obvious results - another reason to oppose ISPs and states doing it. I run a block list (2 million or so URLs in Pihole) for reducing adverting and tracking. The things that happen can be unpredictable and unexpected, particularly because issues are rarely encountered. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if users of this iOS feature have had problems and haven’t known the source or reported them (even when there is an error message).

[cstigler]

If anyone wants to file more Radars, mine is FB7590236 (so you can just tell them yours is a dupe of that one and they'll combine them).