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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."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @10:04AM (1 child)
Maybe someone finds an ingenious way around missing dept. lines, too?
(Score: 3, Informative) by requerdanos on Thursday September 27 2018, @01:26PM
I found out this thing some time back, breathtaking in its simplicity, staggering in its implications... Department lines are *optional* and stories can run perfectly well without them! (I was just gobsmacked, I tell you...)
Optional, kind of like Apple's following your "control" settings.
It seems to me that...
1. The device's nominal owner sets "control" options for its use. Makes sense, as the device's owner should control the device.
2. This means that some of the time any random person might be denied use of Apple's App Store
3. Apple makes money from their App Store
4. Therefore, this situation might be bad for Apple even if good for the "owner".
5. Since Apple is the actual owner-in-absentia and party who controls the device, Presto-change-o, App Store works perfectly.
6. Never mind what you want. Shut up and fall in line.
7. "I'm not even mad", said the idiot victim. "Apple's mistreatment of its loyal users like me is a good, no, a GREAT thing!"
A related thing happened to me earlier this week (Tuesday*, to be precise). The secretary for a non-profit charity that I work with was responsible for bringing the minutes of the previous meeting to the meeting on that day. She didn't. The reason? She reported that her computer spent the entire day "Updating Windows 10" and she couldn't get to any of her documents no matter what she tried**.
* AKA "Patch Tuesday"
** I gather she didn't try booting into a different operating system, which really should not be a requirement just to access your own files
You've got to understand that you don't own nor control iOS, Windows 10, MacOS, Tesla vehicles, recent John Deere equipment, any Car with Onstar--and you likely never will. This is by design.
If you grant outside control of something you paid money for and own outright, that's your right. But you can't reasonably both grant control to someone else *and* complain that you don't have control. You would need to have chosen free software to have a shot at controlling your own property.