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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @07:34AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @07:34AM (#740695)

    Unless PropellerGuy is a group of some sort, that's just plain wrong.

    That's not how language works.

    Language, as you may or may not know, evolves. What is "wrong" at one point in time may not be "wrong" at another point in time. The word "they" has been used as a gender-neutral singular pronoun for quite some time now.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @03:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @03:18PM (#740815)

    Yes, it's been correct for several centuries, so it's about time it was wrong for a change.