Showing posts with label parental controls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parental controls. Show all posts
Friday, April 28, 2023

iOS App Update hangs without an error message in infinite download: a general approach

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Apple's FairPlay DRM management is notoriously fragile. It can be confused by family sharing, Screen Time controls, payment method chang...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

iPhone Recovery Key attack vector kills your iCloud access: Workarounds pending an Apple fix including Apple ID protection

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Someone who has your iPhone passcode can lock you out of your Apple iCloud and Apple ID services -- as well as take control of your iPhone a...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Apple's App Store Apple Account balance: updated due to transition to Apple Cash

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Update 5/1/2023 - a few months after writing this I realized Apple is in the midst of a very poorly documented multi-year transition. There ...
Sunday, February 05, 2023

Family member not getting iCloud+ family subscription for 2TB storage - "Use Family Storage" in Settings (Family Sharing)

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A family member was seeing only the default 5GB of storage. I prepared to the usual fixes like restart phone, upgrade iOS, leave and restore...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Family sharing screen time bug: a fix for ghost apps

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I'm happy to say I actually fixed a bug in the buggiest apple product ever - family sharing screen time. The "always allowed" ...
Sunday, February 02, 2020

My advice for managing online credentials

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I wrote this up for a book project on special needs iPhone users (Explorers), but it's also my recommendation for non-geek iPhone users....
Saturday, January 04, 2020

Apple's Family: The many surprises of creating an Apple ID with age 13 or under

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(You can skip the rant to get to the tech details) <rant>I frequently berate Apple for the radioactive-feces-infested-dumpster-fire t...
Saturday, May 11, 2019

Screen Time old device bug: Dev used device ID as key, forgot Apple ID

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There’s a well known old-device bug with Screen Time. Once you’ve setup up Screen Time for a child’s device it will always show up under the...

Two new discoveries in iOS Screen Time (parental controls): Age 13 and Apple ID incompatible with Screen Time

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A reputable Twitter source recently wrote that “Screen Time” was "a rush job". It feels that way. As part of a book project I’ve ...
Saturday, October 06, 2018

Only Apple can provide family mobile device management for iOS

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Update 10/24/2018 : After writing this, and only by experimentation, I’ve discovered that Apple actually provides extensive remote control o...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

iOS 12 Family Sharing: Purchase Sharing supports changing Apple ID and UI could support future multiple Apple IDs.

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One of Apple’s “ original sins ” is the proliferation of Apple IDs and the inability to merge or manage them. I have four that I know of wi...

iOS 12 Parental Controls / Restrictions / Screen Time: Parental Controls (Passcode restricted) is not always compatible with "Share Across Devices"

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Experimenting with Screen Time I enabled a passcode on my personal iPad after I’d enabled “Share Across Devices” [1]. I then found I could d...

iOS 12: It's now possible to remove/change Restriction / Screen Time passcode without removing restrictions

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Prior to iOS 12 if you’d set a restriction passcode the only way to change it was to remove restrictions — which deleted things like blackli...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

iOS 12: "family sharing" is still for children only -- ask to buy disabled at age 18 in US

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The “Share purchases on iPad with family members” chapter of my iOS 12 iPad user guide tells me Family Sharing is still limited to children,...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Converting from shared store ID to Family Sharing - and what didn't work

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Maybe this worked.  Or not. See update. Our five family members have long shared one store Apple ID. We’ve done this before there was Famil...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

The state of iOS parental mobile device management is bad

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I recently reviewed Qustodio and found it unusable because the mandatory VPN is not compatible with modern encrypted connections (https) . ...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

Qustodio parental control software for iOS is obsolete.

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I did a review of Qustodio’s parental control product for iOS on my special needs blog . It wasn’t a positive review. The product routes all...
Saturday, October 14, 2017

Mobile device management and Apple Classroom for home

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Contrary to Ziff-Davis (ok, it was 2013)  there are several vendors who provide MDM solutions for home use. MMGuardian and Qustudio are tw...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Android restriction (parental control) solutions: Screen Time and MMGuardian advance to next step

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For my book project I searched my  moto E test phone  (Android 5.1) user guide for “child” and “restriction” and “parental”.  I found “prod...
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Monday, April 13, 2015

iOS 8.3 took away one of my favorite parental controls

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With iOS 8.3 Apple made an undocumented change that will make a few kids happy. No, not the post-update dialog that will lead many parents ...