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Tag: screen time

Are Apple’s Screen Time reports useful?

Tuesday, October 25, 2022 2:39 pm3 Comments

With Screen Time, you can access real-time reports showing how much time you spend on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or iPod touch…

Six-year-old spends $16,000 on iPad game purchases

Monday, December 14, 2020 5:33 pmMonday, December 14, 202035 Comments

Six-year-old George Johnson secretly racked up more than $16,000 in Apple iPad game purchases from within his favorite video game…

U.S. DOJ contacting app developers in Apple antitrust probe

Tuesday, February 4, 2020 2:11 pm12 Comments

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

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 3:10 pm34 Comments

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

Tuesday, October 15, 2019 3:16 pmTuesday, October 15, 20198 Comments

Kids are outsmarting an army of engineers from Cupertino, Apple’s headquarters in Silicon Valley…

Using Apple’s Screen Time in macOS Catalina

Monday, June 10, 2019 4:02 pmMonday, June 10, 2019No Comments

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

Monday, June 3, 2019 11:14 pm3 Comments

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’

Saturday, May 4, 2019 10:30 am9 Comments

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

Monday, April 29, 2019 7:44 am13 Comments

Apple Inc. has released an official statement regarding the removal of parental control apps…

Apple cracks down on screen-time and parental-control apps

Saturday, April 27, 2019 9:19 am32 Comments

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

Friday, April 19, 2019 12:09 pm2 Comments

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

Friday, April 5, 2019 11:28 amFriday, April 5, 201911 Comments

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

Monday, March 4, 2019 7:08 pm9 Comments

What effects can phone screen time have on students?

Screen Time: Will we actually reclaim our time from iPhones and iPads in 2019?

Wednesday, December 26, 2018 10:40 amNo Comments

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

Monday, December 10, 2018 10:05 am6 Comments

Smartphones, tablets and video games are physically changing the brains of adolescents…

Apple’s Screen Time is not accurate for tracking your habits

Friday, September 28, 2018 3:03 pmFriday, September 28, 20187 Comments

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

Monday, September 10, 2018 5:33 pmMonday, September 10, 201815 Comments

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

Thursday, August 23, 2018 1:30 pmThursday, August 23, 20188 Comments

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

Thursday, June 21, 2018 9:25 amThursday, June 21, 20182 Comments

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

Monday, June 18, 2018 3:02 pm6 Comments

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

Friday, June 8, 2018 11:00 amFriday, June 8, 20188 Comments

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

Wednesday, June 6, 2018 12:55 pmWednesday, June 6, 201810 Comments

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

Wednesday, June 6, 2018 10:02 amWednesday, June 6, 20187 Comments

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

Tuesday, June 5, 2018 12:02 pmTuesday, June 5, 20186 Comments

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

Monday, June 4, 2018 4:30 pm9 Comments

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

Monday, June 4, 2018 4:17 pmMonday, June 4, 20182 Comments

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?

Friday, May 18, 2018 3:00 pmFriday, May 18, 201825 Comments

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

Friday, January 12, 2018 12:44 pmFriday, January 12, 20187 Comments

When to allow children a smartphone has become among the most pivotal of parental decisions…

Can Apple save us from ourselves?

Thursday, January 11, 2018 8:20 amThursday, January 11, 20189 Comments

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

Tuesday, January 9, 2018 5:47 pm14 Comments

Apple is vexed with the problem of excessive customer satisfaction…

Apple defends iOS parental controls; plans new, ‘even more robust’ tools

Tuesday, January 9, 2018 9:43 amTuesday, January 9, 20184 Comments

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

Monday, January 8, 2018 10:00 amMonday, January 8, 201810 Comments

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?

Thursday, August 3, 2017 1:11 pmThursday, August 3, 201744 Comments

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

Friday, April 21, 2017 2:30 pm19 Comments

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’

Wednesday, September 23, 2015 12:53 pmWednesday, September 23, 201519 Comments

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

Tuesday, March 3, 2015 6:01 pmTuesday, March 3, 201538 Comments

Can’t recall a friend’s phone number? Press the speed dial on your iPhone…

Steve Jobs was a low-tech parent

Thursday, September 11, 2014 3:02 pmThursday, September 11, 201415 Comments

I had imagined the Jobs’s household was like a nerd’s paradise…

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