“Apple is vexed with the problem of excessive customer satisfaction, particularly in the troublesome demographic of young users,” Daniel Eran Dilger writes for AppleInsider. “That’s the latest hot take reaction to the issue of kids being given permissive parental approval to stay up all night on their iOS devices, leaving them sleep deprived and distracted.”
“Apple’s parental controls on iOS are focused on limiting access to content and specific apps, but the company already has tools in place to enforce parents’ wishes on the Mac,” Dilger writes. “It just needs to bring these to iOS.”
“What’s still missing [in iOS] is time, date and bedtime hours restrictions that are available under Parental Controls on Macs,” Dilger writes. “The controls on Apple’s desktop platform also include limiting web browsing to specific sites, emailing to specific contacts, and can limit a child’s account to using the “Simple Finder,” which effectively restricts what a young user can do in various ways.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: How to set up and use macOS High Sierra’s Parental Controls here.
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Two major Apple shareholders push for study of iPhone addiction in children – January 8, 2018
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Steve Jobs was a low-tech parent – September 11, 2014
Apple is culpable for many software and hardware issues lately, but Apple is not responsible for poor parenting.
You been talking to Botty’s mother again?
No, but he’s been banging yours.
Papa!!!
Um, shouldn’t this have been implemented by Apple already? Why does it have to start to be an issue before Apple notices? Does anybody at Apple bother to review for basic omissions like this?
Hey Blood
What’s your problem
You too weak to control your children.
Expect others to to do that.
WEAK!
Perception Tommy boy PERCEPTION! By others that Apple isn’t doing it’s job and fanning the Apple H8ting flames. Weak is your inability to grasp that.
I guess Apple has some things to learn from Amazon’s Freetime product.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_left_v4_sib?ie=UTF8&nodeId=201589340
It really makes you wonder if Apple is really on top of everything that’s going on. If you were a fly on the wall at Apple HQ would you be able to say “Oh yeah they got this covered and it will be incredible” or “OMG they have no idea!! They don’t even notice the problem. Tim is really not noticing what’s going on in his departments as much as he should either. Amateurs!”
Read the (f word) manual. Parent Control is in Mac OS and iOS since the beginning. These shareholders asking for it are a bunch of douchebags.
Same douchebag thinking on ‘curating’ adult owners of devices…
Too bad Apple spent all that effort slowing down iDevices to prevent unexpected shutoff. You could have just given little Johnny your old iPhone 6 and after 3 hours, *poof* the damn thing shuts off. Problem solved and no pesky lawsuits!
I’m sure you never asked Apple to assist in bringing your spawn into the world. Take responsibility for your kids and be the parent.
Teenage Girl: “My Mom says no phones in my bedroom, and I have to hand it over until my chores are done”
Teenage Friend: “You must totally hate her”
Teenage Girl: “um, like, yeah”
“What’s still missing [in iOS] is time, date and bedtime hours restrictions that are available under Parental Controls on Macs,” I’ve been hoping for this kind of control for years!