Chances are you’ve seen it. You launch a game and before you can start, up jumps a green screen from “game center” asking you to sign in or invite friends or some other game-center-type thing.
Let’s be clear, here. I have NEVER used Game Center. I don’t know exactly what it does. I don’t want to know. I just don’t want to see it pop up all the time. It is annoying.
Over time, I tried several things to make it go away, but nothing worked and I resigned myself to tap-tapping that nasty little screen with ‘no’s’ and ‘disables’ until it vanished ….but only temporarily. It is a determined little fellow and it always popped back.
Now I think I have found something that works. At least it works for me. Perhaps it is dependent on other settings, I just don’t know.
But for me, for now, I am delighted to say that I have NO MORE game center pop ups popping up. 
I hope it works for others, although I certainly can’t guarantee it. I can only hope it works for you as it has completely eliminated the pop ups on my iPhone and iPad.
Here is how I disabled the game center pop-up:
Go to Settings.
Tap on General.
Look down to Restrictions.
Tap on Restrictions. You will be asked to enter a passcode. REMEMBER IT.
On the next screen, look all the way down at the bottom.
You’ll see a spot that says “game center” with two tabs that are set to “on”. Tap them, and turn them “off”.
Go back out of the settings.
Re-boot your phone.
Hopefully …… I can’t promise ……. but hopefully, you won’t be bothered by the pop-ups anymore.
kdkh
/ January 2, 2013Excellent! My husband and I are addicted to Spell Rift (which you recommended) but it always pops up with this stupid screen. Thanks for the work around.
sharechair
/ January 3, 2013I hope it works for you.
Alastair
/ January 3, 2013Hopefully it will work Will let you know
sharechair
/ January 3, 2013I hesitated to post this, because I’m not really sure. But so far I see no game center pop ups, so I’m hopeful. Good luck! I’ll be anxious to know.
mixedupmeme
/ January 3, 2013I start to play a nice little game of solitaire (cards on the kitchen table) and in pops my husband telling me of a play I missed. Very annoying.
sharechair
/ January 3, 2013Oh, Meme, you are too too funny. I’m so sorry about your annoying pop-up, but for him I have no solution. You’re on your own.
dadirri7
/ January 3, 2013thanks a lot, i find this annoying too …will try it asap!
Ezekiel ogboko
/ January 17, 2013Reblogged this on STRICTLY GADGETS.
Anonymous
/ February 10, 2013Oh wow, you hero!!!
sharechair
/ February 10, 2013I hope it works for you.
MissVi
/ May 7, 2013That is indeed the way to disable GameCenter on your device.
However, you might find some GameCenter features can be quite useful for you. If the only issue is the constant popping-up of the GameCenter login screen, you can just do it ONCE AND ONLY ONCE(unless you logout of course!).
To avoid the constant popping of the GameCenter login screen everytime you open your game, just create and login to your GameCenter account ONCE(you can have one account for your whole family for example so you don’t need to switch users). You can do it within the built-in GameCenter app on your device, or any of the game app that bugs you to sign in. After you successfully logged in to your GameCenter account, the next million times you open up your games, you will only see a welcome banner on top and it won’t ever bother you to login anymore. It will silently work on the BACKGROUND, recording your scores, checking if you’ve unlocked some achievements and other fun stuff the game has implemented for you.
Here are some of the GameCenter features you might like:
> Achievements – some games have implemented achievements. It could be fun to know if you’ve managed to unlock them.
> Leaderboards – some games include scoring mechanism. You can compare how good(or sucky) you are vs. other players.
> Match with friends – not too common, but there are games that need more than 1 player to start a game
> find friends playing the games you play
> get recommendations – GameCenter has a list of new/existing games similar to your current games, or games that your friends are playing. Example, you like spaceship games, the next time there’s a newly released spaceship app, GameCenter will add this new game into your recommended list. This makes it easier for you to look for new exciting games to play!
> Share scores – you can brag about your high score on facebook, email, sms and other share functions provided. Or not.
> Easy rate-the-app feature – you can give the games 1* or 5* within the GameCenter App, you don’t need to go to the App Store and search for each game you want to rate.
> Get the Facebook Like button – there’s a Facebook Like button that you can access within the GameCenter App.
Now all these don’t need to pop right before your eyes. Just take it as a record of your game progress that is shelved, and is just waiting to be viewed. You can access these within the game app(they usually have links for that), or within the Game Center built-in app on your device.
Sorry for the wall of text there!
sharechair
/ May 7, 2013Oh, my, don’t apologize! You gave a wonderful explanation of game center …. as I was reading, I wondered if you were going to announce that you worked for them.
Thank you for taking the time to share this information.
MissVi
/ May 7, 2013You’re welcome! ^_^