App to limit screen time for tweens/ teens

[Anonymous]

Yes I find the “find my” doesn’t work as good as good as just using their phone and doing the screen time there. Just make sure to set the same screen time passcode as find my and as soon as you think they might have figured it out, change it again. Don’t ever give your kid your Apple ID and password.

[Anonymous]

I am shocked at how many parents don’t get screen time pass codes and use them. Just let their teens on their phone all day/night. It’s highly addicting.

[Anonymous]

The other tip is that once you make the screen time restrictions, close the app out. Otherwise, if you leave it open, they may be able to readjust the times without the passcode.

[Anonymous]

I use an app on my teenager's phone called Grace. I know it works because I often get requests from my kid to extend out their time just a little. I lock the phone down for texting and browsing during main classes but open it back for lunch and free periods, and also impose a weekday limit of 3 hours/day. I'm sure some parents would think this is overkill but my kid really struggles with being tied to their screen, so for now we are doing this. The app has been fantastic and we haven't really had any problems so far beyond me occasionally forgetting to turn off "pause" on the limits -- no problem with apple turning the limits off randomly. It's been great tbh.

[Anonymous]

I use circle app/take phones sometimes. I also limit time on iphone, but dc found a way around that for YouTube.

[Anonymous]

Down time and app time with password. Change the password frequently

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am shocked at how many parents don’t get screen time pass codes and use them. Just let their teens on their phone all day/night. It’s highly addicting.

As a teacher you would be shocked how much they use them in school. I wish parents used downtime during school hours. You can still reach family and use school aps

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am shocked at how many parents don’t get screen time pass codes and use them. Just let their teens on their phone all day/night. It’s highly addicting.

As a teacher you would be shocked how much they use them in school. I wish parents used downtime during school hours. You can still reach family and use school aps

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am shocked at how many parents don’t get screen time pass codes and use them. Just let their teens on their phone all day/night. It’s highly addicting.

As a teacher you would be shocked how much they use them in school. I wish parents used downtime during school hours. You can still reach family and use school aps

I do this through the Grace app but schedule it so kid can use phone during lunch and free periods etc. Otherwise they would be group texting through class all the time i'm sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am shocked at how many parents don’t get screen time pass codes and use them. Just let their teens on their phone all day/night. It’s highly addicting.

As a teacher you would be shocked how much they use them in school. I wish parents used downtime during school hours. You can still reach family and use school aps

I do this through the Grace app but schedule it so kid can use phone during lunch and free periods etc. Otherwise they would be group texting through class all the time i'm sure.

You an literally turn downtime off and on as needed on your own phone to your kid's phones thru iPhone and it is free

[Anonymous]

We used "ESET Parental Control" on our kids phones. You can limit phone use to particular apps and times of day/days of week. Block some categories of apps. Prevent adding an app without parental permission. See how much time they are spending and on what. Track location. We have android phones which (at least at that time, kids are now in college) didn't have much in parental controls.

[Anonymous]

Also you control what apps they can download, set this in the settings for screentime. THEN you need to block those websites for ones they can not go to. Block youtube, tiktok, insta or whatever you are trying to limit. Parents think if they don't have the app, they can't get access. Make sure you turn off access to the website as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also you control what apps they can download, set this in the settings for screentime. THEN you need to block those websites for ones they can not go to. Block youtube, tiktok, insta or whatever you are trying to limit. Parents think if they don't have the app, they can't get access. Make sure you turn off access to the website as well.

So many work arounds to this not worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am shocked at how many parents don’t get screen time pass codes and use them. Just let their teens on their phone all day/night. It’s highly addicting.

You think a pass code is going to stop a kid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am shocked at how many parents don’t get screen time pass codes and use them. Just let their teens on their phone all day/night. It’s highly addicting.

You think a pass code is going to stop a kid?

Gotta love parents who justify not caring by saying things like this. How is my teen going to find out the code. I can already see in parental controls on all platforms for their apps and exactly how much time they spend on each. So if I code an hour and they are on it for 2hours than I know they know a work around or on another device and I fix it. Only happened once