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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kid needs to become more tech savvy.  In 2023 they should have it set up to where you can’t see anything.  All of the “control”apps are a waste of time and money [/quote]

How can a teen get around downtime and screen time if you have a parent code they don’t know?  It shows when the code was inputted and it shows down to the exact minute how long they are on each app. So even if they got around the code it would be obvious to see [/quote]

There are apps to unlock the phone.

Other simple functions still work depending on what your settings are.  Like for iMessage,  if they take a screen shot.  You then have the ability to forward that messages via iMessage/text which then allows you to add text and just delete the screenshot before sending.

Don’t know if it still works but when the one minute warning comes up swipe up to close the app and then reopen app and time limit will start again.

If you have limits on specific apps they can just delete the app and reinstall the limits will be gone.

Also depending on what you use they can just creat another iCloud again.  Delete second profile on device and just add whenever they need to get on.

Just Google options. 
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You are not one step ahead of these things which are just the parents not doing their homework.

You set up the parent code to do downtime, 5 contacts allowed during downtime, app restrictions, always allowed, and content restrictions.

You can set each app and customize every single day. And when you put the app on time limit, there is a toggle you must switch on that they  can not extend time. So they only get 1 extra minute only. After that they must input the parent code for more time.

As far as deleting and reinstalling the app, under screen time, content and privacy restrictions, you can toggle on for needing the parent code before they can add and/or delete apps. Same with iCloud.

Unfortunately downtime can only be set once a day for a certain hours. I wish I could do school hours and then night hours.

Also when you click on screen time it shows exactly how long they have been on the phone each day in the weekly graph. If you click on current day (or any day) it will show you exactly how many minutes they have been on each app. There is no way getting around that. So if you set Tik Tok for 2 hours and see they were on it for 3.5 hours that day, it’s easy to see the kid figured out a way to get around that restriction.

It’s very easy to check once a day to get an idea.

And yes I do let my kid get extra time and I am not always super strict. It really depends on grades and how they are doing. [/quote]

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