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Title: Two Screen Time tips to keep kids from working around limits
Post by: HCK on February 05, 2020, 04:05:12 pm
Two Screen Time tips to keep kids from working around limits

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<p>The Screen Time feature available across iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS 10.15 Catalina—as well as being part of Family Sharing—provides parents with strong tools for keeping track of their kids’ screen usage and making sure they can’t use their devices at all hours or for purposes that a parent hasn’t allowed.</p><p>But I’ve found in my own household and from readers there are two critical settings surprisingly easy to miss that let kids bypass management settings.</p><p>In Settings &gt; Screen Time, you need to start with Use Screen Time Passcode. (You can also manage this in Family Sharing from Settings &gt; account name &gt; Family Sharing &gt; Screen Time.) You can set a quiet period, called Downtime, control which apps may be used, and set which contacts are ok for phone calls and messages during regular time and Downtime.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3518783/two-screen-time-tips-to-keep-kids-from-working-around-limits.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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