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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: 2) by Arik on Thursday September 27 2018, @05:51AM

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday September 27 2018, @05:51AM (#740677) Journal
    Sorry, I tried to follow this but it's just too much stupid low level drama and whining to get through.

    If I read the beginning correctly, this is some kind of feud between folks that are basically aligned; because the trans-girl thought the girly-boy was conspicuously overusing her name because he wasn't sure which pronouns she wanted? Doesn't seem too important really.

    If you can force your detractors to drop to such an extreme level of ridiculosity to stay hostile you've just about won the battle already.
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