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Apple Promises to Fix Long-Ignored Parental Control Bug After Media Spotlight
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Just make sure you fix the problem for iOS 15, 16, 17. Not all of us can upgrade, don’t just fix it and iOS 18. 
Apple was busy developing the calculator App for iPadOS18. Now that that’s out the way, time can be freed up to address other things, like bug reports from 2021.
‘A fix is planned for “the next software update.”’
So if you have an older device for your kids, you’re out of luck. Go buy a new iPad if you want your current one to work as advertised.
So if you have an older device for your kids, you’re out of luck. Go buy a new iPad if you want your current one to work as advertised.
Those with kids who use this, do these restrictions on porn and violent sites actually work in practice? I have Safari turned off for my kids except for a small subset of child friendly sites, but my daughter is getting older and I’ve considered giving her more access since she seems to take after me being a jack of all trades and wanting to learn how to do almost everything.
But I also grew up on the unrestricted web and know how dangerous it is and that I’m lucky I was smart enough to regulate myself surprisingly well. I also grew up bypassing a lot of the overly restrictive content filters in my school. So I’m curious if this actually works?
I bit on that $200 off iPad Air 5th gen deal from earlier today and got both my kids new iPads to setup coming soon, and I’d like to review a lot of the parental control settings. I might also setup some parental controls on my router, or perhaps see if I can route traffic from their MAC addresses through my Raspberry Pi 4 and filter it there as a backstop. But I worry about when they’re connected to WiFi at friends and family’s houses. I really need to look into profiles and what can be done with regard to restrictions based on WiFi connection. Idk much about it or what is possible.
But I also grew up on the unrestricted web and know how dangerous it is and that I’m lucky I was smart enough to regulate myself surprisingly well. I also grew up bypassing a lot of the overly restrictive content filters in my school. So I’m curious if this actually works?
I bit on that $200 off iPad Air 5th gen deal from earlier today and got both my kids new iPads to setup coming soon, and I’d like to review a lot of the parental control settings. I might also setup some parental controls on my router, or perhaps see if I can route traffic from their MAC addresses through my Raspberry Pi 4 and filter it there as a backstop. But I worry about when they’re connected to WiFi at friends and family’s houses. I really need to look into profiles and what can be done with regard to restrictions based on WiFi connection. Idk much about it or what is possible.
If you just google a bit you will see so ****** many complaints about Screen Time and Screen Time API. I think Screen Time And Screen Time API have to the worst Software Apple ever released. Its so embarrassing that things only change after a well known Reporter writes about it. Feedbacks by us normies is ignored. If I could choose if Apple releases a a new iOS or fixed their Feedback Process, I would always pick the latter. I really hope something changes after this WWDC, but I doubt it will.
They really dont give a **** about Feedback / Bug Reports
You can plead to have bugs addressed and fixed. In the cold light of day Tim/Apple could care less UNLESS you have a newspaper and gallons of ink to publish and address it. Then, and only then, it will get noticed and addressed.
Remember when the shills were gushing over Apple “protecting” our children by scanning our phones photos and messages and then got caught out because it was all really for China so they dropped it?
Apple do not give a rats butt about privacy, children’s safety or human rights in general. It’s time to stop pretending they’re some humanitarian environmental lovers, they’re just another greedy company that want your money with good marketing.
Apple do not give a rats butt about privacy, children’s safety or human rights in general. It’s time to stop pretending they’re some humanitarian environmental lovers, they’re just another greedy company that want your money with good marketing.
I think the bigger point here is that Apple tends to completely ignore serious bugs for years and years unless and until they get massive negative attention.
Of all bungled things Apple ever made screen time is by far the most painful.
- Screen time synchronization from parent iPhone to child iPad works only erratically. Was worse 2 years ago but is still a mess. I stopped the synchronization between devices and do all screen time configuration directly on the child's iPad. To stop the "share between devices" I had also to log into my account on my wife's MacBook (which I normally never do but for some reason I created the account 4 years ago) to switch it of there manually as well.
- The screen time settings app look different on different devices even in the same OS.
- And if you really want to ruin everything: Give your child that only has a iPad an account on your MacBook. Then all the iPadOS-App show up in the settings on your MacBook and nothing works anymore. Really nothing. First I had to find a way to delete everything (was not easy, since many options in the settings had been greyed out), then I had to make sure that there is really no sharing between devices enabled on any of our devices. Only then I could create everything from scratch again.
My theory: Apple employs to many young, dynamic but childless people as developers who really have no clue about organizing a family.
I always thought it would be a good idea to target parents as customers so that kids get an Apple product right from the crib. But it seems as if Apple knows better .... :-(
- Screen time synchronization from parent iPhone to child iPad works only erratically. Was worse 2 years ago but is still a mess. I stopped the synchronization between devices and do all screen time configuration directly on the child's iPad. To stop the "share between devices" I had also to log into my account on my wife's MacBook (which I normally never do but for some reason I created the account 4 years ago) to switch it of there manually as well.
- The screen time settings app look different on different devices even in the same OS.
- And if you really want to ruin everything: Give your child that only has a iPad an account on your MacBook. Then all the iPadOS-App show up in the settings on your MacBook and nothing works anymore. Really nothing. First I had to find a way to delete everything (was not easy, since many options in the settings had been greyed out), then I had to make sure that there is really no sharing between devices enabled on any of our devices. Only then I could create everything from scratch again.
My theory: Apple employs to many young, dynamic but childless people as developers who really have no clue about organizing a family.
I always thought it would be a good idea to target parents as customers so that kids get an Apple product right from the crib. But it seems as if Apple knows better .... :-(
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This is the EXACT same mess that Apple Music suffers from. It’s completely incapable of synchronizing plays, settings, album deletions and smart playlists etc. across any device. My AppleTV, iMac, iPhone, iPad and HiBy Android music player each show me a different Apple Music state that is only seldomly influenced by any other device on the list. I can force each one to update by logging out of my AppleID and back in on each one, but it never fully synchs and it only lasts until I play, add or delete something from my library. There is basically zero continuity between them… and it’s a cloud based service for goodness sake!
It’s a complete disaster. And it’s been like this for a DECADE now.
They will probably call it AI Screen time and call it a new Ai feature.
tbh my kids found it much quicker to work arround android screen limits than iPhone ones,
"Here's something I found on the web. Oh, wait, you can't access it. Please type 'gh23ugh2fgbrwgbwrouigh;wrgurbg' into your browser to continue"
wait my children cant change the clock its getting blocked