Apple parental controls guidance

[Anonymous]

Apple is deliberately making this easy for kids because they want them addicted. Apple is certainly savvy enough to give us good controls if they wanted to. I’m just signing in with commiseration. The best thing we can do is keep our kid really busy. We say “yes” to almost every opportunity for her to hang out with people in person and host a ton.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Make sure the toggle is on green for block after limit. Many moms do not do this. Make sure to change the screen time passcode at least once a week.

Make sure Content and Privacy restrictions are toggled on and make sure they are all correct. don’t allow apps to be added or deleted. Make sure they can’t change the password.

Most of the work arounds are changing clock time, deleting and reading the app over and over again. Asking to enter the code on their phone and they are screen recording it. Make sure to use your phone for family sharing.

You can use life 360 and find my. You can also put an AirTag in his backpack

But the best way is for every time the location is different, turned off, or app time is overuse, they lose their entire phone. If they aren’t home. I just set the entire phone to downtime. Make sure downtime contacts are NOT everyone and only a handful of people

This is the best advice. It is basically what we did and we’ve managed to raise kids that are not screen addicted.

Wow. Aren’t you special. Good for you! You’re a great parent.

The kids know how to get around all the Apple blockers. They can even just change time zones to get around. For home, we have to turn off their phone service. For tracking, they do know how to turn off or even trade phones with friends. Etc. so we had to go back to old fashioned take phone away for other periods of time or other grounding etc if they are being untruthful.

You can’t change time zones if content restrictions is toggled on and done correctly.

They also shouldn’t know the Apple ID password

And also make sure you have it toggled on to ALL devices. Otherwise they can use burner phones on their Apple ID for more time.

So be sure the WiFi is only allowed for specific devices and they don’t know the WiFi password either.

This and the above stuff a PP recommended is what works.

But the best is to just have a rule on app limits. It will show you when they go over, even if they bypass it.

So Instagram is 1hr a day. If you go over that for any reason. Lose of phone for 2 days.

[Anonymous]

The bottom line is neither Apple nor Google wish to place themselves at a competitive disadvantage by developing actual parental controls that would limit what their target consumers can access.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make sure the toggle is on green for block after limit. Many moms do not do this. Make sure to change the screen time passcode at least once a week.

Make sure Content and Privacy restrictions are toggled on and make sure they are all correct. don’t allow apps to be added or deleted. Make sure they can’t change the password.

Most of the work arounds are changing clock time, deleting and reading the app over and over again. Asking to enter the code on their phone and they are screen recording it. Make sure to use your phone for family sharing.

You can use life 360 and find my. You can also put an AirTag in his backpack

But the best way is for every time the location is different, turned off, or app time is overuse, they lose their entire phone. If they aren’t home. I just set the entire phone to downtime. Make sure downtime contacts are NOT everyone and only a handful of people

This is the best advice. It is basically what we did and we’ve managed to raise kids that are not screen addicted.

Wow. Aren’t you special. Good for you! You’re a great parent.

The kids know how to get around all the Apple blockers. They can even just change time zones to get around. For home, we have to turn off their phone service. For tracking, they do know how to turn off or even trade phones with friends. Etc. so we had to go back to old fashioned take phone away for other periods of time or other grounding etc if they are being untruthful.

You can’t change time zones if content restrictions is toggled on and done correctly.

They also shouldn’t know the Apple ID password

And also make sure you have it toggled on to ALL devices. Otherwise they can use burner phones on their Apple ID for more time.

So be sure the WiFi is only allowed for specific devices and they don’t know the WiFi password either.

This and the above stuff a PP recommended is what works.

But the best is to just have a rule on app limits. It will show you when they go over, even if they bypass it.

So Instagram is 1hr a day. If you go over that for any reason. Lose of phone for 2 days. [/quote

Instagram has a bypass.

[Anonymous]

There is a known bug in apple for screen time and they won’t fix it. The kids CAN work around it

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/07/30/apple-confirms-screen-time-reset-bug-will-get-fixed

[Anonymous]

Can anyone link to a Facebook page or website that details how to lock down or mirror my kids first phone

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a known bug in apple for screen time and they won’t fix it. The kids CAN work around it

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/07/30/apple-confirms-screen-time-reset-bug-will-get-fixed

That article says (at the bottom) that the fix is that each individual phone has to be configured for ScreenTime *from the phone itself*.

Previous advice (various posts above) also is good that one has to configure all of the many different things - and the DC also cannot know (or guess) the AppleID password.

My workplace uses "Apple Configurator" to provision settings into work phones. This is a (no cost) IT admin type tool that runs on a Mac, so probably it is not very user friendly. It really does lock down the phone.

[Anonymous]

Mine figured it out one time by watching me.

Also, sometimes it did double count (like 30min of youtube would also count as 30min of safari for 60 total).