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insane_dreamer01/21/20251 replyview on HN

not just occasionally but often, in our experience with multiple phones and iPads. I have 2 kids with devices and have found Screen Time completely useless. It is the right idea in theory but in practice it's broken (I'm guessing no Apple higher ups have young kids that they've tried to use this with.)

Also, besides the resets (and by reset I mean not just time restrictions but content restrictions too), my kid can just bypass it by entering his AppleID password.


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baxtr01/21/2025

There are many YouTube videos for teens on how to bypass ScreenTime. It’s a mess that Apple needs to clean up quickly

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