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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @04:41AM
When I was a kid, I'd sneak around my AOL usage limits by logging in with my dad's account after finding that he wrote his password down.
And at school (this was like 3rd grade, so I guess I was a bit older than in the story), everyone passed around proxies so they could play flash games instead of doing work.
Kids are pretty decent at getting around this sort of thing through whatever means they can find.