The other day I was listening to music on my Apple TV – a rare occurrence. I switched to my user account and pulled up a playlist to find that all the explicit songs weren’t available. “Wait… what?” I knew that my son’s account had restrictions that I had set in Screen Time, but my account didn’t.

I hopped over to the Settings in tvOS to find that Restrictions were on. “Great,” I figured, “I’ll turn them off.” I did. I got to listen to my sweary-sweary music as much as I wanted. But I wondered… is this a global setting? Sure enough it is: I was able to switch over to my son’s account (again, which has restrictions on at the Screen Time level) and listen to explicit music, no sweat.

This, in short, is hot garbage. Multiple user support on tvOS is bad. It’s a facade. While I appreciate the restrictions that Screen Time offers on iOS, it’s pretty clear that very very few people at Apple actually live in or tested their products in a home with multiple people and children.

User accounts on the Mac remain about as good as they can be: it’s a real switch. But on iOS and tvOS, it’s not there. Worse, I’m imagining it’ll never be there – and especially for a shared device like an Apple TV, the argument of “just buy another” makes even less sense.