Showing posts with label sphone4all. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sphone4all. Show all posts
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, 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) . ...