One of the new features that Apple has included in iOS 12 is a feature ScreenTime or Screen Time Or, as Apple calls it in Arabic, "the duration of the use of the device", and one of the benefits of this feature is that it helps to monitor your children's use of the iPhone or iPad, and enables you to set restrictions on applications and know how your children spend their time on the phone. Thus protecting them from wasting their time and being addicted to the use of these devices, which helps them to attend to their lessons and increase the absorption capacity and study they have instead of filling their minds with things that are not very useful. This is what Apple intended from that feature. Almost a year after its appearance, it became popular with users. And recently, the Washington Post indicated that parents are starting to feel anxious, as some enterprising children have found many ways to bypass screen time limits and other parental controls on Apple devices, which angered the concerned parents. Learn these tricks and how to correct it.


Screen time vulnerabilities

A Washington Post report stated that some children have been able to find gaps in the Screen Time feature that enable them to easily overcome them, whether through repeated attempts or by searching for vulnerabilities that have been published on the Internet, and found that these vulnerabilities do not require any in-depth technical knowledge. They are very simple tricks with which kids can overcome some aspects of the screen time system. Such as:

◉ Restart the phone constantly until the Screen Time feature is "broken" or corrupted.

◉ Delete the protected Screen Time app and re-download it from the app store again.

◉ Reset all iPhone settings to their factory defaults.

◉ Create a new Apple account.

◉ Change the time zone, and this trick has been used a lot to find various solutions for several years.

◉ In other cases, kids can guess or get the 4-digit passcode that locks screen time.


What can parents do about this

There is no doubt that there is no ideal parental control application that can be relied upon, so parental observation and monitoring of the child must be done over time, and parents must be almost completely aware of their children's behavior and behavior, for they are the ones who carry the message after us, so it is not correct to leave them prey to such Things that spoil their minds and their lives.

Apple can offer fixes to these vulnerabilities (and a number of these vulnerabilities have already been resolved). But as we said, this is not a substitute for parents who closely monitor their children and also this solution will not prevent children from finding other tricks.

There is no doubt that there is no more effective way to limit the duration of the use of the device in children than to remove these screens from their hands and legalize their use under direct observation.

Do you use Screen Time with your kids? Do you think it is sufficient for monitoring? Let us know in the comments.

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