Keep reading to discover step-by-step instructions, as well as essential tips and tricks on how to disable the restrictions on an iPhone.+
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How to Lock Messages on iPhone to Protect Your Privacy
Text messages that you send or receive could be read by other people. Find out how to lock Messages on iPhone using Screen Time and more.
Apple Moves to Unblock Asian Content in iOS 14.5
Apple is moving to unblock Asian content in iOS 14.5 after a series of news reports noticed something weird going on.
Recreation Time From NextDNS Mimics Apple’s Screen Time
I’ve written about NextDNS before; it’s my personal DNS service of choice. The company recently added a feature called Recreation Time.
Introducing Recreation Time — only allow some websites, apps and games during a specific time period each day of the week.
E.g., only allow Facebook, YouTube, Twitch and Fortnite on Wednesdays and Fridays between 6:30pm and 8pm, and on Saturdays and Sundays between 1pm and 8pm.
8 Year Old Finds iPhone Screen Time Workaround
An eight year old has found an iPhone Screen Time workaround, after her older brother noticed something odd (His post on Reddit has since been deleted).
It turns out she’d developed a pretty simple trick to keep browsing videos: just access YouTube through the iMessage App Store…For example, the Reddit post specifies that the eight-year-old in question was unable to access YouTube on the iPhone’s Safari app or even in the iMessage version of YouTube. The kid had to go to some lengths to figure out that she could access YouTube by searching for it in the iMessage App Store.
She’s a security researcher in the making.
iOS Adult Filter Blocks Searches for “Asian” and “Teen”
According to Apple, if someone searches for words like “Asian” and “teen” it must be for pornography. So discovered Charlie Stigler.
iOS 13: How to Use Screen Time as a Privacy Feature
Using Screen Time, Andrew shows you how to block robocalls, disable your microphone and camera, and make the job harder for thieves.
Apple Releases 13.3 Updates to iOS, iPadOS, tvOS
Today Apple released iOS 13.3, iPadOS 13.3, and tvOS 13.3 with bug fixes, improvements, and a couple of new features.
Doing it Wrong With iOS Screen Time Limits
According to USA Today,
Some screen time is worse than others when it comes to kids and academic performance, according to a new analysis published in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics.
Television viewing, followed by video games, were the two activities most tied to poor school performance, researchers showed in a review of 58 studies published over the decades.”
Other activities: not so much. This is a helpful article for parents.
Developers Want Apple to Create a Screen Time API
Apple removed a bunch of screen time apps from the App Store, saying that the MDM technology they used was a security risk. Now the developers want Apple to create a screen time API.