--- title: "How to share screen time on iPhone, with family and with friends · finit" description: "Sharing screen time, honestly labeled: Share Across Devices for your own gear, Family Sharing for kids, and the friends part Apple never built, covered by finit's board." url: https://getfinit.com/sv/blog/share-screen-time lang: sv published: 2026-08-13 modified: 2026-08-13 --- # How to share your screen time, with your family and with your friends 13 August 2026 · 3 min read · by the makers of finit, whose friends board is the second half of this page Screen time is easier to change with witnesses. iOS covers exactly one kind: family. Sharing with your own other devices is a toggle, sharing with your kids runs through Family Sharing, and sharing with a friend, the person you'd actually race, is the part Apple never built. Here is how each works, honestly labeled. ## Across your own devices Open **Settings → Screen Time** and turn on **Share Across Devices** on every device signed into the same Apple Account. From then on, the report shows a combined total with a per-device breakdown. Two honest notes: syncing lags by minutes to hours, and the merge changes your numbers, which [can make totals look suddenly wrong](https://getfinit.com/sv/blog/screen-time-wrong). If the toggle is greyed out or won't hold, [that has its own fix page](https://getfinit.com/sv/blog/share-across-devices-not-working). ## With your family Family Sharing is the built-in path for parents: set up a child in your family group, and their Screen Time appears inside **Settings → Screen Time** under the family section, with remote limits, downtime and approval requests. It is a supervision tool, deliberately one-directional; your child does not see your screen time, and it stops being available as kids grow out of child accounts. For adults who simply want to see each other's numbers, iOS offers nothing. ## With your friends This is the gap finit exists in, so judge accordingly. finit has a friends board: you connect with a short code, and each of you sees the others' weekly totals on a simple leaderboard, updated as your weeks fill in. No feeds, no comments, no location, just the numbers, because the honest number next to a friend's name does more than most blockers. It works between adults who choose it, which is precisely the case iOS never covered. ## The manual fallback The oldest method still works: screenshot the report in **Settings → Screen Time** and send it. It proves a moment, which is sometimes all a bet with a friend needs. Its weakness is the record: screenshots capture a week that [the iPhone itself deletes about four weeks later](https://getfinit.com/sv/blog/screen-time-history), so a running comparison needs something that actually keeps score. ## De korta svaren ### How do I share Screen Time with my family? Through Family Sharing: add your child to the family group, then manage their Screen Time from Settings on your own device, including limits, downtime and requests. It is designed for parents supervising children, not for two adults comparing numbers. ### Can I share my screen time with friends on iPhone? Not with anything built into iOS; Apple only covers your own devices and your family group. Apps can fill the gap: finit connects friends with a code and shows each person's weekly total on a shared board. ### What does Share Across Devices do? With the toggle on, every device signed into the same Apple Account reports into one combined total, with a per-device breakdown in the chart. It needs the switch turned on separately on each device, and it syncs with some delay. ### Can someone see my screen time without me knowing? No. Your report is visible only on your own devices, to a parent inside Family Sharing if you are set up as a child, or to friends you explicitly connect with in an app you chose to install. Numbers change faster with company. [Put yours on a board a friend can see](https://getfinit.com/sv/why), and let the comparison do the nagging. [Ladda ned på App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/finit-screen-time-life/id6786888937?pt=128650426&ct=web-agent&mt=8) [Se det i appen →](https://getfinit.com/sv/#app) --- Markdown twin of https://getfinit.com/sv/blog/share-screen-time. Site map for agents: https://getfinit.com/llms.txt. Every English page in one file: https://getfinit.com/llms-full.txt. The same page in another language: the same path with a language segment in front, https://getfinit.com/de/blog/share-screen-time.md for one; the list is in llms.txt.