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Re: Overnight device activity consuming allowed time
Same issue. I noticed there is an option to put sites in Site Manager and set to unlimited. Unfortunately, if they are IP addresses you cannot. I have an Apple IP address (17.57.144.39) that keeps pi...
Never did hear back from them on if this was fix. It appears the long-standing issue with Smart Parental Controls remains unresolved. Two years after canceling for this exact reason, I was enticed back by a discount, only to find the same flaw: background activity is being counted as active "Time Limit" usage.
Hard to see how Netgear could sort out background activity from other usage.
Have you looked into the screen time management controls in the devices? Not sure on Android, but iOS does have controls to schedule downtime and also manage communications during downtimes. You could use these as well as the parental controls.
They sort background activity for every other ip. It is specific this one for Apple.
For some reason it isn’t able to be converted to unlimited access like other IP and apps.
iOS and NG Parental have to match perfectly. Practically, you have to use one or the other.
I’ve chosen iOS.