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Re:School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improve... by Vegenoid on Sunday December 15, 2024 @10:31AM (#42423930)
Does iOS not have pretty robust parental controls and locks? I ask this seriously, to see if any parents have experience locking down iPhones against a motivated adversary (their child) within the last few years.
Re:School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improve... by dmart on Sunday December 15, 2024 @12:29PM (#42424639)
No. Screen Time (their parental controls implementation) is easily circumventable, includes a “One More Minute” feature that can’t be disabled, doesn’t sync properly, manages to crash Safari in mysterious ways… I could go on. It’s disastrous, like an intern-level project that was shipped and never improved upon. And these are the only parental controls APIs available, so competing apps aren’t even possible, they ultimately just serve as alternate frontends for Screen Time.