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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @05:57PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @05:57PM (#740906)

    *pats Ms. Vim [soylentnews.org] on the head*

    There, there. Everything will be ok. We'll eradicate all men and implement anarcho-capitalism once there are only women, who are angelic in nature, left. Nobody will use a singular they after men are extinct. It'll be ok.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @10:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @10:14PM (#741064)

    Once men are extinct, who will pay the bills?