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Title: Understanding screen addiction and parental controls
Post by: HCK on February 18, 2018, 04:05:20 pm
Understanding screen addiction and parental controls

Apple is under pressure from activist groups to improve Parental Controls and combat screen addiction. But what's real, what's sensationalism, and what's an abdication of personal responsibility?





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Rene Ritchie: I'm Rene Ritchie and this is "Vector."

Today I wanted to talk about parental controls, restrictions, the things we use to control what other people can do with the devices that we control but they get to use, namely parents.

This is a big topic lately. I'll get into why in just a minute but I'm going to give you quick examples.

Parental controls on iPhone and iPad

On an iPhone or an iPad you can go into Settings and then the General tab here. You can go down to Restrictions. There's a lot of things you can control, everything from Safari, to Camera, to Siri and Dictation, FaceTime...

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