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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: 3, Insightful) by kiffer on Thursday September 27 2018, @10:50AM

    by kiffer (3153) on Thursday September 27 2018, @10:50AM (#740733)

    Wow... that's nice wall of text you've got there.
    But... "they" is also perfectly valid usage in a number of English dialects.

    So, having done loads of work to explain that "everyone should be totally fine with 'he' as a gender neutral pronoun" you're still left with the simple fact that 'they' is normal*, common, non-recent, and grammatically acceptable usage.

    *oh, it's not normal in your Local English Variant?
    It is in mine, and has been since I was a child in the 1980s,
    it not some new politically correct thing.

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