Using Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time

Re:Using Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time by visarga on Thursday July 12, 2018 @02:03AM (#17512495)

For years I tried limiting the screen time of my kids (back when iPhone was at versions 4 and 5). Never could manage to do it properly. My kids would always hack it. I concluded that Apple's interest in having kids spend as much time (and money) on the phone is opposite to mine and that's why they didn't allow proper parental controls. Now I just ask for the phone in the evening and give it back the next day. So much for "high tech". Seems that Apple finally woke up and did something about this. Asking a kid not to abuse the phone is like putting a large bag of chocolates in their room and saying "eat responsibly!".

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Re:Using Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time by swebs on Thursday July 12, 2018 @08:37AM (#17513824)

>For years I tried limiting the screen time of my kids (back when iPhone was at versions 4 and 5). Never could manage to do it properly. My kids would always hack it.

This may actually be the best way to teach technical literacy at a young age. When I was young, I thought computers were black boxes that ran on magic. Then I had parental controls set on my user account. I learned really quick about Windows privilege escalation, how to install Linux, WEP cracking, how to load homebrew on the Nintendo DS, etc. I don't think I would have ever gone into Computer Science otherwise.

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Re:Using Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time by CptMauli on Thursday July 12, 2018 @02:13AM (#17512535)

I think with chocolate its much easier to practice restraint. My children have access to endless sweets, but they seldom take advantage of it. But with the iPad its a different ballgame.

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Re:Using Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time by JTbane on Thursday July 12, 2018 @09:26AM (#17514216)

I still eat too much chocolate as an adult sometimes- the stomach aches remind me not to indulge too much.

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Re:Using Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time by justMoritz on Thursday July 12, 2018 @09:06AM (#17513997)

Maybe because the iPad is a productivity machine and chocolate is a fat machine?

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