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posted by mrpg on Thursday September 27 2018, @03:33AM   Printer-friendly

Kids as young as 7 are finding ingenious ways around Apple's screen time controls:

[...] Parents can use the feature to impose restrictions on their children's device usage — or so they thought. One Reddit shared the story of how their seven-year-old had gamed the feature, sparking a chat that has nearly 500 comments.

"When iOS 12 came out I limited my 7-year old son's screen time through the family share. For a few days I felt like he was playing a bit more than he should, but I couldn't figure out why," u/PropellerGuy said.

"Finally today, my son revealed his hack: When he runs out of screen time and his games get locked, he heads to App Store, downloads a previously installed (but later removed) game through the cloud icon, and it works without limitations!"

"What can I say," they added. "I'm not even mad. That's impressive."


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  • (Score: 1) by Some call me Tim on Thursday September 27 2018, @04:06AM (1 child)

    by Some call me Tim (5819) on Thursday September 27 2018, @04:06AM (#740640)

    This cannot be allowed! Flush this child that is smarter than Apple and start over!
    (snark)

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  • (Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Thursday September 27 2018, @04:42AM

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 27 2018, @04:42AM (#740659) Journal

    Isn't this considered circumventing access controls or something like that in the DMCA?

    Kid should be in juvie with the rest of the criminals (we can probably treat him as an adult for this)

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