Gardion
Background use is “optimised”
By default Samsung decides when to close an app. The time counter and the blocks become unreliable.
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Controls on Samsung that survive the optimiser
One UI saves battery at the expense of background apps by default, and it revokes permissions from apps left unused. For parental controls those are two ways to quietly stop working.
Set it up in 3 minutesTwo quiet ways it breaks
Permissions revoke themselves
The switch “remove permissions if app is unused” is on by default. The parent never opens the child app — and the permissions are gone.
No overlay means no break screen
The “appear on top” permission is what puts the break over a game. Without it the child never sees it.
Tablets are often shared
On a family tablet it is easy to forget the controls are only on one profile.
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What to change in One UI
Verified on a Galaxy Tab S6 running Android 12, in both the Russian and the English interface.
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Set battery to “Unrestricted”
Settings → Apps → Gardion Kids → Battery. Of the three options you need the top one: allow background battery use without restrictions.
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Turn off permission auto-revoke
On the app info screen there is a switch “remove permissions if app is unused”. Turn it off.
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Check “Appear on top”
Same screen, further down. It must say “On”, otherwise the break screen will not appear over a game.
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Leave the permissions alone
The camera is only for the movement warm-up, location is for the map. We do not read messages and never switch on the microphone.
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