How to get rid of the "Ignore Limit" button on iPhone
Updated July 7, 2026
You set an app limit with the best intentions. Then the limit arrived, and so did the "Ignore Limit" button — and you tapped it. Again. How do you make that button disappear?
Here's the truth nobody in this search result wants to lead with: Apple provides no setting to remove the Ignore Limit button from your own device. On your own iPhone, with your own Apple ID, that button is part of the deal. Every site promising a one-click removal tool is selling you something else.
What you *can* do is change what tapping it costs. There's one legitimate trick inside Apple's settings that hides the button behind a passcode — with real weaknesses — and one actual fix: replacing Apple's polite limit with a blocker that doesn't have an ignore button at all.
The Screen Time passcode trick (and how to set it up)
Apple's built-in workaround is to make Ignore Limit demand a passcode you don't have. Here's the setup:
- Open Settings → Screen Time → Lock Screen Time Settings and set a Screen Time passcode.
- Go to your app limit and enable Block at End of Limit. Now, when time runs out, "Ignore Limit" becomes "Ask for More Time" — which requires the passcode.
- The critical part: you must not know the passcode. Have a friend or partner set it and keep it, or mash a random 4-digit code without looking and don't write it down.
Why the passcode trick eventually fails
This setup is better than nothing, and for some people it holds for months. But it has structural cracks:
- The friend is a human. You will ask them for the code "just this once," and they will give it to you, because they're your friend and it's your phone.
- The random code is recoverable. Apple lets you reset a forgotten Screen Time passcode with your Apple ID — a craving that survives a 3-minute recovery flow gets back in.
- One passcode unlocks everything. The moment the code is entered for a legitimate reason, all your limits are negotiable again until you re-lock.
- "Ask for More Time" still offers one more minute. Even blocked, iOS hands you a 1-minute grace tap — a drip-feed the scroll brain happily lives on.
Avoid the "unlock tool" sites in this search result
Search for removing the Ignore Limit button and you'll find pages of desktop tools promising to "remove Screen Time" from your iPhone. Read carefully: these are passcode-removal utilities aimed at people locked out of a device. They typically require a computer, some require wiping the phone, and pointing one at your own working iPhone to un-restrict yourself is solving the opposite of your problem. You're trying to make limits stronger — those tools exist to make them disappear.
The real fix: replace the button, don't fight it
The Ignore Limit button exists because Apple's Screen Time is designed to be advisory for adults. You can't remove the button from Apple's limit — but you can stop using Apple's limit as your enforcement layer.
Third-party blockers built on Apple's Screen Time API use the same system-level blocking engine, but they control the shield screen — which means they decide what buttons exist. A blocker can replace "Ignore Limit" with nothing, or with a gate that demands real effort. That's the standard laid out in app blockers you can't bypass: the exit shouldn't be free.
The strongest version of this makes the exit *physical*. Instead of a button that costs one tap, the unlock costs exercise — an idea covered fully in how to earn screen time by exercising. You can still get in; you just can't get in for free.
How PushBlock does it
PushBlock is what this search is actually looking for: an app limit with no ignore button. It blocks your chosen apps using Apple's Screen Time engine — the same system-level framework as the built-in limits — but its shield has no "Ignore Limit," no "Ask for More Time," no snooze.
The only way through is pushups, counted by your camera with on-device AI (nothing recorded or uploaded). 1 pushup = 2 minutes, banked into a daily wallet with a 15-minute minimum unlock. No passcode to recover, no friend to wear down. Beta users report cutting screen time by well over half — because the button they kept tapping finally stopped existing. The only unlock button is your body.
Frequently asked questions
Can I remove the Ignore Limit button on my own iPhone?
No — Apple provides no setting to remove it for your own device. You can only lock it behind a Screen Time passcode with Block at End of Limit, or replace Apple's limit with a third-party Screen Time API blocker that has no ignore button.
What is Block at End of Limit on iPhone?
A Screen Time setting that turns Ignore Limit into Ask for More Time, requiring your Screen Time passcode. It only helps if someone else holds the passcode — or nobody does.
Why do I keep tapping Ignore Limit?
Because it's a free exit shown at your weakest moment. One tap beats any intention. The fix isn't more willpower — it's an enforcement layer where the exit costs effort.