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Title    Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls
Date    Thursday September 27 2018, @03:33AM
Author    mrpg
Topic   
from the dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/09/26/2336256

chromas (from IRC) writes:

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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  1. "Kids as young as 7 are finding ingenious ways around Apple's screen time controls" - https://www.businessinsider.com/kids-finding-ways-around-apple-screen-time-controls-2018-9
  2. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=29218

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