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Re:Buried Apple Feature Turns an iPhone into the Perfect Kid... by morninglight on Thursday July 09, 2026 @02:38PM (#48850523)
While living in Japan, our kid used a cellphone with 3 buttons.

1. Call mom, 2. Call dad. 3. Call Auntie.

These kid's phones were very common, inexpensive and worked great.

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Re:Buried Apple Feature Turns an iPhone into the Perfect Kid... by imp0cat on Thursday July 09, 2026 @03:59PM (#48851614)
There is an entire ecosystem of kid's watches which do exactly that. Pretty much just a miniature cellphone with restricted functions that goes on the wrist like some sort of a tracking collar.
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