Comments on: Restrict iPhone usage with iPhone Parental Control Restrictions

By: Lori

Lori — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:05:29 +0000

My 14 year old Christian Son was a genneraly good kid too. Very respectful and thoughtful he has an itouch. and cell with Text. My regrets. Do Not give anyone under the age of 16-17 that clearly does not show maturity a texting device, whether it be cell phone text, or itouch which can text too. My son was receiving SexTing from girls, naked photos from girls. ONce you take the inhibitions away, everything is easier. A child/teenager my not feel comfortable "saying" something from their mouth to someones ears. But Texting it… no problem. Let them have a cell, with limited numbers to access. Remember the days of phones with cords attached to the wall and pay phones.
Now kids can't even hold a conversation these days, they are all thumbs. Video games, Texting, emailing, MySpace… not necessary. Save yourself what I am going thru now. I feel like I have LOST my sweet boy, he HATES me now for restricting his use, and for limiting and even just asking.

Don't do it

By: demogeek

demogeek — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:20:27 +0000

KEW, Kid Mom – that should be something we can only expect in a future update of iPhone OS. Either Apple should restrict these restricted apps from showing up at all or rate them higher.

By: kid mom

kid mom — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:10:13 +0000

I second that question. I am really having problems with these aps still showing up in the ap store and some of the bad ones are rated 4+. What can we do about that?

By: KEW

KEW — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:56:44 +0000

I selected the restrictions on my 11 yr old's iPod Touch. It will not let him download content above my selections, but he can still see them and read the graphic details about the app. Is there a way to block apps from being displayed if they are over the selected restriction?

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All you need to know about your Mac’s Parental Controls — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:27:14 +0000

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By: iPhone Teacher/Parental Controls: My Diigo Links 12/06/2009 « My Other Blog

iPhone Teacher/Parental Controls: My Diigo Links 12/06/2009 « My Other Blog — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:41:36 +0000

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By: Dan Humpherson

Dan Humpherson — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:25:24 +0000

Simple tutorial to disable installing of Apps on iPhone: http://bit.ly/7Alt9e (Built in fuctionality)

By: Paul Hood

Paul Hood — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:41:15 +0000

The only foolproof way is to just not give children these devices. Impossible I know. My wife and I are struggling right now about buying one for my 12 year old son. He’s generally a good kid and follows the rules. But you know what? I follow the rules at work but sometimes I still end up with some sort of porn on my computer from a typo or whatever. Anyone ever tried going to whitehouse.com? Or if you are like me you have a Dick’s Sporting Goods Store around so your wife wants to buy you a great golf club and goes to dicks.com….Nope, not gonna find a golf club there! Our plan is to just simply ask our son to follow the rules and if he runs across any porn by mistake simply close the browser and start over. Any problems with this and he will lose the ipod FOREVER and he knows that. We are a christian family and I don’t want my child exposed to this, but at the same time, I know he’s going to see it and hear about it in school and talking to him about it is probably the best way to get through to him. If you teach your kids right and wrong they are still going to do the wrong things sometimes but that’s how we learn. You can’t shelter your child from everything at all times, you just have to give them the information and hope they make the better decisions in life. Good luck!!!

By: demogeek

demogeek — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:13:01 +0000

Thank you Cindy for the link. As it's mentioned in there it is clear that these parental controls are something that's not fool-proof. It is there to serve something rather than nothing and of course a teen/kid who can figure things out can easily break the parental control capabilities of iPhone. I wish these capabilities expand in the future to become some sort of fool-proof.

By: cindy

cindy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:37:40 +0000

http://www.macworld.com/article/135623/2008/09/ip...

By: Jorge

Jorge — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:20:42 +0000

i restricted my settings icon too now i can t disable the restrications help pleae !!!

By: Ris

Ris — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:30:01 +0000

Hi, I changed the restrictions on my iphone so my teenage boy wouldn't look at things he shouldn't look at…..it worked for a bit, but eventually he guessed the password, anyway I can revise it….unlike lots of other people I can find on the internet, I DO still know the old password, I just want to change it.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:47:30 +0000

Hi – Is there a manual way to give a movie a rating as I have converted videos on my iphone that I don't want my kids to see. Thanks

By: mobicip

mobicip — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:08:24 +0000

TheGeek Thanks for a well-written article. As an additional point, parents who disable Safari using Restrictions can then enable one of the alternate kid-safe browsers available for the iPhone or iPod Touch. Mobicip.com offers one such alternate browser with built-in filtering and remote web-based parental control features. Check it out at http://www.mobicip.com

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By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:49:49 +0000

Do these controls work for the iTouch as well? I just bought a refurbed iTouch 8GB for my son and I want to know if these will work for his iTouch.

By: TheGeek

TheGeek — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:33:03 +0000

isaiah – if you can be a bit more elaborative on the issue that would help us understand the problem.

By: isaiah

isaiah — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:16:10 +0000

i restricted my settings icon too now i can turn disable the restrication help pleae !!!

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Askar — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:46:06 +0000

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