Six-year-old George Johnson secretly racked up more than $16,000 in Apple iPad game purchases from within his favorite video game…
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U.S. DOJ contacting app developers in Apple antitrust probe
The U.S. Justice Department has reached out to app developers as part of its Apple antitrust probe, one of the four big tech companies being probed for…
Steve Jobs’ legacy? Across the board, scores drop in math and reading for U.S. students
Math and reading scores for fourth- and eighth-graders in the United States dropped since 2017, and the decrease in reading achievement…
Kids circumvent Apple’s ‘Screen Time’ parental controls with ease
Kids are outsmarting an army of engineers from Cupertino, Apple’s headquarters in Silicon Valley…
Using Apple’s Screen Time in macOS Catalina
There is more to Screen Time than just Apple waggling a finger at you for using the Mac for sixteen hours a day…
Apple backs off crackdown on parental-control apps
Over the past year, Apple purged iPhone apps that helped people limit the amount of time they and their children spent on Apple devices, drawing accusations of anticompetitive behavior…
Apple CEO Cook discusses protection of customers’ private data: ‘You are not our product’
Apple CEO Tim Cook is worried about the protection of personal data…
Apple releases official statement on the removal of parental control apps from the App Store
Apple Inc. has released an official statement regarding the removal of parental control apps…
Apple cracks down on screen-time and parental-control apps
Over the past year, Apple has removed or restricted at least 11 of the 17 most downloaded screen-time and parental-control apps…
Siri Shortcuts, Screen Time, and more coming to the Mac
Apple is working on bringing the Mac and iOS closer together with the introduction of macOS 10.15 and iOS 13…
Teens ‘not damaged by screen time’, study finds
There is little evidence of a link between the amount of time teenagers spend on devices…
Survey reveals what 8+ hours of screen time does to students’ grades
What effects can phone screen time have on students?
Screen Time: Will we actually reclaim our time from iPhones and iPads in 2019?
At the beginning of this year, I was using my iPhone to browse new titles on Amazon…
Groundbreaking study shows screen time physically changes kid’s brains
Smartphones, tablets and video games are physically changing the brains of adolescents…
Apple’s Screen Time is not accurate for tracking your habits
iOS 12 is out, and a lot of people are suddenly realizing that they spend way too much time on their smartphones…
Teens now prefer texting to face-to-face communication
Today’s teens prefer texting over in-person communication, use social media multiple times a day…
This is what happens when you take away teenagers’ iPhones
More than half of teens are worried they spend too much time on their iPhones…
The real reason Apple and Google want you to use your phone less
Why would the companies that make your phone want you to use it less?
This Apple iOS 12 feature totally changed the way I think about my iPhone
By 8:30 am, I had already picked up my iPhone X 59 times last Monday, or about once a minute since I started working…
WWDC 2018: Apple’s counterintuitive business moves
Apple has always put forth the image that it cares more about surprising and delighting its customers than about cold hard cash…
Apple no longer tells users what’s best for them
For Apple to find a middle ground between my mom, my daughter, and me is no easy task…
Screen Time: Why Apple can’t solve iPhone addiction in a vacuum
On Monday at its annual developer’s conference, Apple unveiled several new features designed …
Apple CEO Cook has been using iOS 12’s ‘Screen Time’ and found he’s on his iPhone too much
Each person has to make the decision when they get their numbers as to what they would like to do…
Apple previews iOS 12 with shared AR experiences, Group FaceTime, Memoji, and much more
Apple today announced iOS 12, the latest version of the most advanced mobile operating system…
Apple’s iOS 12 introduces new features to reduce interruptions and manage Screen Time
Apple today announced new tools built into iOS 12 to help customers understand and take control of the time they spend interacting…
Who’s really to blame for ‘smartphone addiction’, and who’s responsible for curbing it?
What happens to society when a creator’s creation gets away from them, when the creation can no longer be controlled by the creator?
Apple’s revolutionary iPhones vs. parents
When to allow children a smartphone has become among the most pivotal of parental decisions…
Can Apple save us from ourselves?
We have a smartphone addiction problem. Around 77 percent of American adults now own a smartphone…
Apple’s Mac already has a solution to iOS addiction
Apple is vexed with the problem of excessive customer satisfaction…
Apple defends iOS parental controls; plans new, ‘even more robust’ tools
Apple Inc. defended its record of providing parental controls and other protections for children who use its iPhones and other devices…
Two major Apple shareholders push for study of iPhone addiction in children
Two big shareholders of Apple Inc. are concerned that the entrancing qualities of the iPhone have fostered a public health crisis…
Has Steve Jobs’ iPhone destroyed a generation?
One day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas…
Bill Gates tells banned his kids from having mobile phones until they turned 14
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, says that he did not permit his children…
Child psychologist: Giving iPads to children under two is ‘tantamount to child abuse’
It seems that the arrogance of modern technology (together with ruthless commercialism) knows no bounds…
Scientists warn overuse of modern tech may cause brain to prematurely fail
Can’t recall a friend’s phone number? Press the speed dial on your iPhone…
Steve Jobs was a low-tech parent
I had imagined the Jobs’s household was like a nerd’s paradise…
